Limited Express (Has Gone?) hail from the fertile Kansai scene that produced Japanese punk pioneers The Boredoms, but come off more as a link between BORE's Osaka and tighter, more produced Tokyo bands such as Melt-Banana and Demi Semi Quaver. That, in no small part, has to do with Yukari's poppy vocals. She doesn't quite sing like MB's Yasuko or DSQ's Emi Eleonola, but she does sing, putting her more in the Tokyo camp than on the side of Eye's cut-throat screaming. That they have songs rather than brief apocalyptic scenarios furthers them in the gloss punk direction.

Their guitar-bass-drum attack (with a snare drum miked enough to perforate your ear drums) is fairly straightforward trance energy. The songs are diverse, straying into dub and psych, but it's the production that makes them stand out (no producer is named, but the disc was recorded and engineered by Anzai Masakiko). Vocal lines pop up on the left, right, above and below the mix, always isolated from the rest of the band. All three sing, and while vocal qualities don't change much from song to song, the heavy production creates the feeling of a large cast of the same few characters. The one exception is the self-produced "Donut" (from a different session), which is sparser and simpler, suggesting that the Tzadik recording budget was a good friend.

Tzadik tends to record Jap punk that displays talented musicians (there are scores of rough-and-tumble Japanese bands that are unlikely ever to show up on Tzadik's roster). Limited Express are less convincing as punk artistes , but are still charming.