Down In the Hole is Texas Pandaa’s third album after their 2006 debut One Gleam After the Shadow and demon­strates a band who are won­der­fully pro­gress­ive in their avail­ab­il­ity and inter­ac­tion with fans but also refin­ing their music in an increas­ingly crowded genre. What that genre is depends on one’s defin­i­tion of the slow, poised […]

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Not to be con­fused with the hor­ror novel, House of Leaves, House of Five Leaves sports a visu­ally dis­tinct­ive aes­thetic that mixes paint­erly back­grounds with spindly, dark eyed char­ac­ters. More effect­ive in motion than in stills, the open­ing trio of epis­odes are meth­od­ic­ally paced, care­fully bal­an­cing the mean­der­ing story with char­ac­ter development  —  a […]

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K-On!! is not the har­binger of doom that so many make it out to be. For a show about the twee shenanigans of five high school girls and their band, it cer­tainly is divis­ive. The first three epis­odes of the second series how­ever do not high­light why; sure the open­ing sounds like […]

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Angel Beats! has a very ambi­val­ent open­ing three epis­odes: at times it’s deal­ing with infant­i­cide and domestic abuse, the next it’s par­ody­ing the first Res­id­ent Evil film and punt­ing school­chil­dren out of win­dows with over­sized mal­lets. Writ­ten and designed by two not­able pro­du­cers from the power­house Key, most often asso­ci­ated with the […]

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After break­ing free from Yoko Kanno over three years ago, Every­where is Maaya Sakamoto’s new com­pil­a­tion album that brings together fif­teen years of vocal work includ­ing some of the most iconic theme tunes to some of the most influ­en­tial anime and a vari­ety of TV and radio shows.
With only one new track on the two CD […]

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