Alternating Off And On

Fujiya & Miyagi “Knickerbocker” – “Knickerbocker” plays out like the sort of inscrutable, confounding dream that knocks you of sleep in the morning, and resonates in your head for the rest of the day. As the day moves on, the internal logic of the dream disappears, and you’re just left with a handful of vivid, seemingly meaningful images that make little sense out of context. Though it can be something of a chore to hear some people talk about their dreams, Fugiya & Miyagi’s music has a fluidity and urgency that allows the song’s disconnected imagery — ice cream sundaes, rows of light bulbs, the apparition of an anorexic former child star — to come together in a way that feels intuitive, and emulates the peculiar logic of dreaming. Instead of describing what the images mean, the band put the listener inside their vision, and the result is as spooky as it is groovy. (Click here to buy it from Insound.)