Here’s a daring moving — in the heart of year-end season, electronic imprint Progressive Form is set to release a new compilation album called Moments next week. It’s a woozy, dreamy collection of pop featuring a lot of names who have grabbed attention in recent years, ranging from the shadow-plunged pop of LLLL to skittery…
Maybe on some other day I would try to say something smart about this, or say something funny about this in relation to the still-young NBA season, but dang I’ve been exhausted for two days in a row now and hearing Special Favorite Music sing “dribble dribble my heart” while a bunch of string flutters…
We are waist-deep in year-end season, but let’s peel back from the lists for a second (ours to come next week maybe if I don’t melt into a puddle!) to look at 2016. It’s already shaping up to be an interesting year — that was before Utada Hikaru announced her spring comeback to music —…
In which an artist who often felt like he was bouncing off of rubber walls makes a song that feels like quicksand. Osaka’s Metome spent the first half of 2015 exploring helium-pumped sounds, but in recent times has moved in a darker, more dense direction. “Triple X” isn’t far removed from something like “Feather,” as…
One of the problems with “new City Pop” — a “trend” created by music stores and slapped on artists such as Cero, Mitsume and Shiggy Jr. among more — is how un-glitzy any of the acts corralled into it actually sound. City Pop, especially during Japan’s Bubble peak, was often times grotesque in its shininess,…