Ayumiko has popped up on several songs by electronic artists that we’ve covered in recent times, but “Dancing Darkness” seems like a good entry point into her own sound. The melancholy atmosphere and her use of anime visuals puts her in similar territory to young artists such as Sleet Mage and Gokou Kuyt, but she…
Kanagawa prefecture has been having a moment. Many of the most buzzed-about young artists of the last few years have hailed from the area just south of Tokyo. Thank demographic shifts for that, but it’s given a lot of Japanese music a relaxed, coastal vibe reflecting a growing interest in…well, relaxed, semi-coastal living. Not every…
Just a couple days ago, we were looking at how Toiret Status explored more space on their newest album. That is not the case on “Mimic,” a collaborative number done with Nozomu Matsumoto. This one’s busy from the get-go, full of hiccuping vocal samples, stretched-out syllables, Pachinko-worthy bursts of electronic noise and more, smashing into…
Look, sometimes I try to be cute with these intros…talking about the weather, current events, a pun!…but today I’ll just say that I’m sick and have been out of it since whatever time I woke up. I’ve only done a passing breeze through my usual music sources and wasn’t really focusing on much. This song,…
This is the first Toiret Status release that doesn’t overwhelm, but benefits from a close listening. This hasn’t been the case before, and that was a pretty great thing in regards to Omaru or Nyoi Plunger, albums that felt like dozens of different sounds criss-crossing like broken TV signals into a pattern that made something…