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A pretty clever record, fine psychedelic pop. “Movie” has a great assembly of girly smooth parts, a chorus worthy of the Mr. T Experience, and a dense finale.
Toadophile Records, 135 Bluxome Street, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107; http://www.toadophile.com/
In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival ( Deep Digs). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
The first film based on Junji Ito’s manga, Tomie, makes its US Blu-ray debut from Arrow Video.
J-Horror Rising, a curated collection from the late ’90s and early 2000s, spotlights three lesser-known gems from the influential J-Horror movement. Phil Bailey reviews Carved: The Slit Mouthed Woman, St. John’s Wort, and Inugami.
