The moment on Zombie-Chang’s “I Can’t Get To Sleep,” the lead-off song from her new album Gang, that really floors me comes maybe just over halfway through. Up to this point, she has bounced along nimbly over keyboard notes and a criss-crossing beat, her voice echoing off into the distance. Compared to last year’s Zombie-Change,…
Osaka’s Paperkraft is getting in the mood for the spring, as latest track “1 (You Don’t Need To Move)” basks in the (soon-to-come) sun rays. It opens with an extended passage of birds chirping off, setting the mood for the easy-breezy house song that follows. I don’t know whether this one should be filed as…
Blah blah blah, busy days, blah blah blah I just want to sleep for the next three days straight but that is just not possible. Well, thank goodness for some indie-pop. Fukuoka-based band Hearsays are back with a number that just jogs ahead on all the familiar elements of a nice, twee-leaning song — breezy…
Feels nice getting to write that! It has been a while since Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs, well, were even together, let alone putting out new material. Yet here they are in 2017, prepping a new single and sharing the video now. Reunions — or coming back from hiatuses, I feel either works when talking…
Artist collective / moving party Dos・Ing is back with a new compilation, gathering new songs from the producers orbiting them. It revolves around a loose techno-orientalist theme of sorts, the songs fixated on technology and “futuristic” topics while often placing them in a Japanese zone — which makes sense, given that this is a Tokyo-centered…