If It's Too Loud...

Photo via TEKE::TEKE Montreal based Japanese psych-rockers TEKE::TEKE are giving us one more taste of their new album before it is released Friday. "Hoppe" has more of an edge to it than their previous singles. It's still psych-rock, but there's a punk edge to the new song that we haven't heard before. It's still a trippy song with a lot going on that is somehow crammed into four and a half minutes, and calling something both punk and trippy seems antithetical, but that's the beauty of a band like TEKE::TEKE. They're always going to release the unexpected, and even if it's not what we expected it's still going to fit right into their repertoire.  Guitarist Sei Nakauci Pelletier says of the band's new song and video: "I always thought of ‘Hoppe’ as having a bit of a 90’s vibe, maybe the Fugazi in me (but with Maya’s delirious tale about an old man who’s cheeks fall off after eating a rice cake… ha, ha) so we tried to simply capture the ...