Boys Age get a lot of inspiration from video games. Last year’s fantastic Calm Time drew inspiration from a psychological horror game, while their latest The Red draws inspiration from Rule Of Rose. The music itself…what has been posted so far…exists mainly in the laid-back zone they’ve been exploring for some time, though on a…
Yesterday, Jesse Ruins announced they would be playing their final show ever on March 26. It is the end of an era in Japanese indie music, as the project stood at the top of a time when artists such as Hotel Mexico and Sapphire Slows were able to land on Western blogs…not a common feet….
Orange Milk Records…who have been highlighting great Japanese artists such as Foodman and mus.hiba for some time now…put out four albums late last week, two of which came from a pair of this country’s wonkier producers going. Anyone reading this blog for a while can probably guess what sound DJWWWW’s Arigato leans toward — a…
Projects shrouded in mystery — especially ones featuring a healthy amount of Japanese — raise a lot of suspicion nowadays, rightfully so. Maybe Pasocom Music Club lives in Wichita, or maybe it is some sort of SoundCloud bot pumping out effortlessly smooth grooves. But they are just so relaxing, easy-going (and far from complicated) creations…
Sparseness is the move for Rionos on “Cache Cache,” a barely-there wisp of a song dusted with synthesizer and a dramatic build. This is the style she’s been exploring for the last few years, but “Cache Cache” is a particularly enveloping entryway into her sound. Piano and her voice usher the listener in, but from…