mxdwn.co.uk » Kikagaku Moyo https://www.mxdwn.co.uk all that matters in music in the UK Tue, 12 May 2026 22:27:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 Recapped: End Of The Road Festival 2021 https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/recapped-end-of-the-road-festival-2021/ https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/recapped-end-of-the-road-festival-2021/#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2021 19:16:46 +0000 http://www.mxdwn.co.uk/?p=41732 Dorset’s near-decade and a half-running music festival End Of The Road have returned in (almost) full-force this year, having been cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst the initially proposed line-up for 2021 suffered slightly, with the likes of indie rock greats Pixies and Bright Eyes, unfortunately, dropping out, the festival was still able to host an exciting roster of groups and artists, including big names such as Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and King Krule.

The festival, which debuted in 2006, celebrated its slightly belated fifteenth anniversary this year, featuring an eclectic melting pot of artists during its four-day proceedings and re-introducing live music in a way that harkened back to the days of pre-pandemic frivolity. Being a more modestly sized festival than the likes of Reading & Leeds, End Of The Road has long since had a capacity of 15,000 people, which was indeed fulfilled this year according to NME.

The four days have proven to be a roaring success, as evidenced by EOTR’s Twitter feed, which has been ablaze with delighted fans since the festival began on September 2nd, proclaiming how good it was to be back at a music festival and sharing pictures of a range of live performances. The assorted line-up of the festival certainly seems to have provided something to suit everyone’s taste, from the hazy psychedelic atmospheres of Japanese band Kikagaku Moyo to the jazz-flavoured post-punk of Squid and the searing-hot rhymes of London rapper Little Simz.

   

Since the festival’s conclusion on Sunday the 5th of September, End Of The Road has issued two tiers of tickets for next year’s festival, with the initial Early Bird tickets selling out in under a minute, according to EOTR’s Twitter. Presently, the second tier of tickets to End of The Road 2022 can be found on their website, with two more tiers being made available soon.

]]> https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/recapped-end-of-the-road-festival-2021/feed/ 0 Japanese Psych Band Kikagaku Moyo Announce New Album https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/japanese-band-kikagaku-moyo-announce-new-album/ https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/japanese-band-kikagaku-moyo-announce-new-album/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2018 07:27:24 +0000 http://www.mxdwn.co.uk/?p=7997 Japanese psychedelic revivalists Kikagaku Moyo yesterday announced a new album, Masana Temples, due for release on October 5th. You can pre-order the new album here.

Coming two years since their last LP, the new album is inspired by their worldwide touring. As reflected in ‘the album’s always changing sonic panorama’, the band’s travels exposed to them to ‘a series of constant metamorphoses, with languages, cultures, climates and vibes changing with each new town’.

In making the new album, the band found in jazz musician Bruno Pernadas a producer ‘who came from a wildly different background’ and who would ‘challenge their own concepts of what psychedelic music could be’. Recorded in Pernadas’ native Lisbon, the new album retains ‘elements of both the attentive folk and wild-eyed rocking sides’ that make the band but in a ‘sharper and more defined’ form.

In support of the upcoming album, the band released the penultimate track, ‘Gatherings‘, as a single. Check out the song below:

Combining fuzz-heavy riffing and delicate, semi-progressive instrumentals, the new song is an interesting showcase for the union of Pernadas’ jazz-production and the band’s overdriven improvisation. With a style that seems both well-rehearsed and endlessly relaxed, the song’s multi-layered passages of electric piano, oddly-syncopated drumming and stabbing electric guitar are promising signs of things to come with the new album.

With a name that translates as ‘Geometric Patterns’, Kikagaku Moyo are one of the biggest bands in Japan and a well-known export in the international psychedelic scene. Coming off the back of a European tour in 2017 and a North American tour early this year, the band are headed back to the States and Canada this month.

Beginning as a loose collective of buskers, the Japanese rockers released their first two albums, Mammatus Clouds and Forest of Lost Children, within a month of each other in 2014. The band shot to critical acclaim with 2016’s House In The Tall Grass, which harked back to the ’60s with distorted sitars, free-form jamming and abundant reverb.

Masana Temples - out October 5th

Masana Temples – out October 5th

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