#maybe mars

[wickedwitchoftheweigels]

(2016)

this is one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard in my life.

every time i watch the music video i start to tear up.

[hunklet]

Found It Hiperson - Bildungsroman (2020)

[fyeahcindie]

Listen/purchase: Virgin Killer by Maybe Mars

Psych-rock instrumental from another band I know little about.  Lots of energy and cool guitar!   =D

The album says The Crowd, but the Maybe Mars bandcamp says the band is called The Crowds.    The info says this song was written by 祁金龍, 曲浥塵, 陳豪, 趙爽. So I presume those are the members?

Any info you have would be a big help.  Even if you just comment with the Chinese writing on the album cover, that would help my Google searching.

The album was released yesterday (Sept. 13), and Virgin Killer is the opening number.  (and the only song I’ve heard thus far)

[sinetheta]

“Song for Her”. Dear Eloise. Beauty in Strangers (Maybe Mars, 2011).

Dear Eloise is a Chinese noise pop band that consists of husband-and-wife duo Yang Haisong and Sun Xia. Quietly releasing music on the Beijing independent record label Maybe Mars since 2007, Dear Eloise are a little-known, yet beloved presence in the Chinese indie music scene, whose mystery is further heightened by the fact that they have never performed live.

Dear Eloise’s sound is melodic and sweet, backed by shoegaze-like noisy guitars and feedback. Their lyrics are simple and earnest, conjuring impressions of blissful memories of times past, while also reaching towards the uncertainty of the future. Their music has been described as “like a fading cigarette end or a scar haunting, tragic, and redeeming.” 

[alternativechina-blog]

Gate to Otherside “Northern Memories (无)”

Introducing: Gate to Otherside, the latest trio of skinny rock’n’rollers to come crawling from the depths of Beijing’s yaogun underground. Fans of older C-indie torchbearers like Carsick Cars and The Gar will find a lot to like here, as will anyone who’s dug on Gate label-mates Chui Wan and Birdstriking — there’s a fair amount of member overlap and style-bleed among all of the above. Gate to Otherside has been gigging around the city’s numerous dives since late 2014 and is now preparing to put forward its debut album, Dragon Bus Terminal, as the latest strain of a particular “Beijing sound” that’s been developing over the last decade or so: one part jangling proto-punk, one part robotic Mancunian rhythmic propulsion, one part noise guitar freakout, and several parts burnout come-down.

[hunklet]

Dinosaur Show Backspace - Ants Corrupt Elephant (2021)

[hunklet]

I Am in A Period of Desperation Hiperson - Buildungsroman (2020)

[hunklet]

Our Ballad Hiperson - Buildungsroman (2020)