Sometimes you see a theme jump out of your SoundCloud likes, and you run with it. Always nice when the music matches in quality. The latest from “urban electro pop” outfit Frasco is “Imitation Crab,” a burbly and slow-moving number with a melancholy streak running through it. And there is a downtempo rap near the…
We tend to focus on the whole “city pop revival” thing a lot around these (and, well, most English media outlets) here parts, but in reality there are a bunch of different areas in the current band boom. Beyond the laid-back outfits, you have the wonky mainstream embrace of Gesu No Kiwami Otome, along with…
Less a song and more a series of blissed-out electronic waves, Panacea Phantastica’s just-shared “Introse” is calming in a way few songs can be. It borrows an approach typically found in drone music — steady stream of quiet-to-loud passages — but builds it up so that her vocals can sneak in and take the song…
But seriously, regardless of how much this dates me…Yunomi really should put out an album, this project has a lot of great, maxed-out electro-pop songs by now, and “Wakusei Rabbit” just keeps the streak going. Once again featuring Toriena, this song is zippier from the get-go than “Oedo Controller,” and only launches even further up…
Vocaloid is a weird tool and oftentimes a tough instrument to build songs around. Yet one realm where synthesized speech tends to do well is electro-pop, and Hyogo-based producer Mameyudofu shows just why on the bouncy Kouiu No Hajimete Nansuyo album, released recently. The vocals on each of the four songs are clearly that of…