Elekibass
has been around seemingly forever, as I remember reviewing a number of their
CDs back in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s when I was a different website and
Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records were cranking out releases of twee like
there was no tomorrow.
To
see Elekibass on cassette in 2014, with me reviewing primarily cassettes these
days, makes me feel like I’ve come full circle in a lot of ways, so personally,
yes, this is quite a thing for me in and of itself.
The
songs of Elekibass have as much passion and energy as they ever have. They could be something as easily compared
as to The Beatles, yet they also have that sound that could be found in an
episode of “Happy Days”. The second
side brings out some instrumental bits with Stephen Hawking-esque computer
talk. Some of the songs are also sung
in Japanese, which is always fun.
I’m
hesitant to call Elekibass the Japanese Beatles because of certain implications
that can come with it, but based on their track record and consistency, I’d say
that it can be fairly accurate if the only difference being that Elekibass does
not garner nearly as much mainstream attention as they so justly deserve.
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