Fukuoka’s Yesterday Once More crew and Trekkie Trax are going on tour, and to celebrate they have released a special compilation album featuring new music from numerous artists involved in the tour. The collection features slippery and skittery numbers from Shigge and BlackglassG, along with a more minimal contributions from TOYOMU and Andrew, along with…
The two newest songs from uneasy pop duo Young Juvenile Youth up the approachable sounds ever so slightly. “In Blue” features a slapping beat while “Hive” gravitates around big bubbly Euro-pop-revival synth notes. Yet, the more I listen to both songs, the more immediate sheen fades ever so slightly to reveal something that has a…
Electro-pop Singer/songwriter Seira Kariya captured a modest bit of attention last year with the song “Nobi Nobi Style,” a mid-tempo sigh of a disco song with a pretty sticky hook. Yet on “Colorful World,” her newest single officially out in June, Kariya embraces big bright pop without hesitation, letting go and delivering a dizzying number….
Osaka quartet Seebirds — in the opening minute of “Herz,” above — sounds like a pleasant albeit familiar outfit. Save for the steely kick of a drum machine and some woozy synthesizer smudges, the song initially seems like a half-speed tune you’d expect to hear coming from any number of livehouses in the Kansai region….
By now, it isn’t news that Osaka’s 99Letters has expanded beyond the initial chiptune-fury of his early years towards something heading off in other directions too — he’s released whole albums of slightly uneasy house music, and has shown a stylistic hopping. Still, “Mind A” is the most relaxed I think I’ve heard the producer,…