Track Marks: How Fujiya & Miyagi Became This Week’s Biggest Band In The World

Welcome to another edition of Track Marks, in which your Idolators perform an autopsy on the latest band burning up the MP3-blogger charts.

Artist: Fujiya & Miyagi Hometown: Brighton, UK Album: Transparent Things, which collects previously released EPs, came out in the UK in May; it will be released in the US next month. First blog mention: Cracking unlixes’ top 20 list in July of ’05. The Build-Up: Pitchers Of Silence posted a couple of tracks in April, and Fluo Kids told its readers to get ahead of their hype a month later. The Mark Out and silence is a rhythm too followed suit in June. The Dam-Break: “Ankle Injuries” has garnered a slew of blog mentions in the last week, and among them were comparisons to Zooropa-era U2 and David Bowie. The song is currently sitting at No. 3 on the elbo.ws chart. Odds of Backlash: 7-2. Fujiya & Miyagi’s whisper-electro sound is intriguing at first, but on their longer tracks, the charm starts to wear a little thin about four minutes in. Are They Worthy?: Sort of–“Collarbone” sounds a bit like warmed-over DFA to us, and it’s probably not surprising that “Ankle Injuries” lyrics, which revolve around a kid finding a porno while heading to school, would result in the song getting noticed by the blogger hordes. One thing we are sure of: F & M’s songs make for decent background music while we attempt to tidy up the Idolator flophouse.

Fujiya & Miyagi – Collarbone [MP3, link expired] Fujiya & Miyagi – Ankle Injuries [MP3, link expired] Fujiya & Miyagi [MySpace]