Indie-pop outfit Mariana In Our Heads have a new album out this December, and the first track from it leaves us with something already wistful. “September” unfolds at a pleasant rate, guided on by washes of synthesizer, some guitar and pleasant bongo touches, but this backdrop only makes the melancholy at the heart of the…
ΔKTR is having a hell of a year. He’s released two of 2017’s best collections of cloudy brained beats, taking the forgotten sounds of the past and warping their best moments. Add another one to the collection — Katalog clocks in at just over ten minutes, but the four tracks within offer up some of…
You can always count on a nocturnal delight from Osaka’s Nite Body. The producer’s latest is the Nite On Earth EP, a two-song set of steady groovers optimal for when the sun is down and the neon lights are out in your city center. “Flawless” carries a little more oomph to it, the kick propelling…
Few independent artists are as exciting as Fuji Chao, who over the course of several albums has created a private world of loops and off-kilter electronics, one over which she sings, semi-raps and mostly talks. The topics central to her music are often closely tied to being a teenage girl in this current world, and…
So, how does the world end? One big burst, or a slower, more suffocating death? I’m not here to offer any answers (right now…probably a coin flip), but rather to share how Tokyo-based artist Electric Candy Sand imagines the latter on his Wasteland EP. The three tracks move at a slime-creeping-down-a-wall pace, and while each…