Now more than ever, the dreamy escapism of J-pop duo Her Ghost Friend sure would come in handy. Three years after their last album, the duo are back with a new album, out tomorrow in Japan. “Matataki” is the first taste of it, and like the pair’s previous efforts, it’s a soft, string-accented pop number…
As far as genres go, “poemcore” probably has more going for it than “Simpson’s Wave” or whatever YouTube trickery gets written up online, but don’t see any trend pieces being written up about it. Owtn., back after a brief hiatus, makes some of the more absorbing songs in this style — which, as the name…
One of the better events I’ve been to this year was the Bounce Up third anniversary party at Club Asia earlier this month. Betapack, a new collective featuring producer Broken Haze, played a very hard-hitting set in the early afternoon, one that featured a lot of songs popping up on the new TRD EP. This…
And we are back from Fuji Rock Festival 2016. Let’s see how long we can go before some other event throws me off schedule…oh, hey massive deadlines on the horizons! It feels like Carpainter has been a “rising” artist for at least two years, despite having released a handful of albums and EPs across numerous…
Folksy indie-pop duo Villa!! create easy-going music that is easy to relax to, but features enough of a kick to keep it from turning into snoozin’ music. They recently shared the four-track Pout Goddess EP, and its bookended by some dusty numbers, the previously released “Nut” and “Doom,” a spritely cut, what with that name….