With this disc I was hoping for a Chinese Brainiac or French Fushitsusha; somehow though I got (yet another) Japanese Jesus Lizard. Hey, at least these guys are better than Mexican Radiohead. Kid Aye!

There's plenty to like about My Way My Love. This Tokyo trio rocks sludgy basslines and squirmy could-be-brilliant chromatic guitar riffs like the best Sonic Youth rips out there. Lovers will enjoy "Captain"-- textbook hard 90s college rock, tuneless but with a drummer who's confident as fuck, as well as "Sports", which is he same song as "Captain" but with klaxon sirens and heavy-handed quiet-loud, and "Sound Of Gold", an accidental tribute to the Slint reunion tour. Haters will hate these tracks, for essentially the same reasons. Come on haters, aren't you at least somewhat charmed by this trans-Pacific indie rock/J-rock romance, a thing I may have just made up? Maybe you just don't like guitars anymore?

Forget you. If the heavy stuff's too much grief-- definitely can't dance to it, eww neww-- MWML also have several short, fast songs to keep your attention. One song, "Nanisuru?", is six seconds long. Another, "Jinxxxxxxxxxxsix", is 16. Both are pretty amazing, all things considered, and very danceable. In fact, if someone heard these songs and said the band reminded him of Devo or (wait for it) Ex Models, I wouldn't protest.