Christmas is more than a month away, but in Tokyo at least it already feels like December 24th. Stores have set up Santa-centric decorations and “All I Want For Christmas Is You” has started getting serious play. Although the current Star Wars advertising blitz is giving it a serious run, the holiday season feels firmly…
Time for MAP, and this month we highlight one of the top names on Fukuoka’s Yesterday Once More label, Shigge. Check it, and way more from around the world, out below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file…
Always a good day when one of Tokyo’s best, She Talks Silence, comes around with a new song full of whispered vocals and a vague sense of creeping doom. “More Anti-Yourself” clangs as lead singer Minami Yamaguchi operates from the vocal style she’s used so well across the group’s career, via muffled singing that still…
One of the Japanese albums we were most looking forward to this fall is streaming over at Red Bull Music. Kyoto producer Madegg’s clanging New is up, and you can listen over here.
The recently released Lollipop Syndrome mini-album (EP? I don’t even know anymore) is the second album-ish collection put out in 2015 by Bonjour Suzuki, an artist blurring sonic styles and languages together into a hazy mix. “Lollipop Syndrome” the song works as strong an introduction to her sound as anything else in her burgeoning catalog,…