Sep 21, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

During the 2000s, The Pastels cultured a lasting connection with the avant-garde pop community of Japan. Thus, the Scottish duo’s long-gestating collaboration with the Tokyo pop duo, Tenniscoats is somewhat predictable. Saya and Ueno Takashi play their instruments like they’re pattering rain on a grassy knoll or butterflies hovering above flowers. More