I Never Lose Myself

My new Hit Refresh column is up on the ASAP site. This week: Camera Obscura, Erase Errata, and SCSI-9 from the new Kompakt Total compilation.

Tigarah “Girl Fight” – Tigarah is like some kind of over-the-top, fully formed high concept wet dream for lifestyle magazines, the kind of thing you might make up if you were coming up with something to parody the taste and style of, say, The Fader. She’s cute and Japanese! And she makes ersatz Baille funk! It basically comes out sounding like M.I.A. with a Japanese accent — there’s less menace in her voice, but the force of the tracks compensates a bit, and “Girl Fight” in particular sounds totally fierce, even when it’s drifting off on a floaty acoustic tangent. (Click here for the Tigarah official site.)