So what do you get when you combine the obvious instruments of guitars, bass and drums with a trombone, shamisen and shinobue (traditional Japanese three stringed instrument and bamboo flute)? Then you name your band after a vengeful spirit from the Japanese legend about a girl who fell onto a railway line where a train cut her in two. The simple answer is the new album ‘Shirushi‘ by seven piece Montreal-based psyche-rockers TEKE::TEKE. Shirushi rattles along with nine songs that will take you on a journey through all sorts of territory with a musical backdrop well suited to anything from 60’s good time surf movies, dark, mind twisting horror plots or simple psycho thrillers. Opening with the atmospheric, almost serene introduction to ‘Kala Kala’ it’s not long before the punchy...