Always up for a nice blast of indie-pop. Cattle hail from Tokyo, and Slow Sailor is their second EP, released via Jigsaw Records in Seattle. It’s exactly what you expect from a Japanese indie-pop…though, if you need to place them on a map, they are closer to the driving rock of Homecomings than the dreamy…
Yoshimi doesn’t see Tokyo in a positive or negative light — the producer just hears the city beat. Atavism is the follow-up to last year’s pulverizing Tokyo Restricted Area, a set gazing back on the capital’s ancient past — and summoning traditional Japanese instruments and singing styles — while also placing it into its claustrophobic…
For the purpose of this blog’s guiding principle, I should focus on the Japanese artists involved in About Time. It comes via Japan’s Kool Switch Works label, and features remixes of the title track by Foodman and Satanicpornocultshop, who both put their disjointed takes on the song. The whole thing is mastered by Metome…so yeah,…
This one isn’t just for fans of dogs — or “doggos,” as the kids call them. Put out by Ayamati-Records and 7mm, this compilation reels in people who are prone to clicking anything with canines on it — so, me — and then hits them with a set of diverse, always energetic dance music, often…
Loud and crushing can be just as good as anything else. Producer Karen Felixx’s Colorless Girl runs with this hypothesis, and comes out with a solid album of heavy — but still making way for moments of melodic escape — tracks. Numbers such as “Dark Love” and “So Sorry” pile up on distorted elements —…