Audiologue

Cibo Matto – “Birthday Cake”

Not to sound too dramatic, but this was the song (and the band) that forever changed the way that I look at music. I was about 16 when my friend Tonia Poobczyk popped Cibo Matto’s “Vive La Woman” album into the CD player and skipped to this track. The album was all about food (a universal language, according to the band), the lyrics were nonsense, and the music was pure discordance. So of course, I fell in love with them.

I was pretty stoked today to find out (thanks O’Reilly) that the kids have finally reunited (Yuka Hondo and Mito Hatori split for a while to work on solo projects). And it is, rather aptly, called the 2011 “Yeah, Basically” Tour.  Check out tour dates here. For you folks in DC, they’ve got a mid-July date booked at the Rock n’ Roll Hotel. Tickets on sale starting this Saturday.