Tokyo-based duo Kiddish have been releasing a steady stream of new music over the course of the year, but “Kagaru” stands out as a particularly absorbing number. Whereas many of their 2017 output has been of or adjacent to the laid-back trend present in rock (more Suchmos than Never Young Beach), “Kagaru” finds them covering…
Hakushi Hasegawa can sometimes sound a little too structured for my ears. At his best, he constructs zippy numbers exuding charm without going full frantic like so many other modern Japanese electronic artists. Other times, his work can come off as a little too music class, more interested in showing off dexterity than delivering something…
Young Juvenile Youth have had a series of starts and stops to their career thus far. They gained momentum…and then kind of dropped off the grid for a second. They play a Hello-Kitty-themed park in Tokyo at a big Halloween show…and then are quiet. Well now the duo’s debut album, Mirror, arrives next month, and…
Plenty of producers make some slight changes to familiar songs, failing to offer new perspective on the number. Pavilion Xool offers the opposite on Stick Around. Take “Glass Streeeeet,” which builds around a sample of Mint Condition’s “Breakin’ My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes).” It isn’t straightforward, but rather the Tokyo producer plays around with the…
Hiroshima’s CRZKNY comes up often around here, but mostly for his political, unfortunately relevant work with the Atomic Bomb Compilation series. He’s great in this mode, but dude can also just get down and filthy when he needs to. Every radical needs to let off steam, and Coke, Shitlife… is the juke producer cutting loose….