I have a really shitty body fever right now, the sort of thing that makes you move at half speed and feel like you are covered in Icy Hot patches. Tokyo-based producer Kosmo Kat’s newest song works surprisingly well given the circumstances…I feel like my soul has dripped out through my nose, and his woozy…
I’m not sure why all my favorite music from Nagoya makes me feel like I’m suffocating, but it does and I keep coming back for more (see House Of Tapes, for one). Figure has always ostensibly made indie-pop, the sort of skippy stuff that is a little editing away from being twee, but he’s always…
Ano(t)raks is growing up a bit. The indie-pop focused netlabel has seen its profile rise in recent years, and has been moving into a more physical direction as of late. To cement this, they’ve more or less split the Ano(t)raks brand in two — one side focusing on physical releases, while the newly minted +Ano(t)raks…
Nagano producer Toyu isn’t afraid to get wonky. The youngster’s latest two-song offering, the Get Together EP, opens with a track off in its own weird, wonderful universe, featuring creaky singing buried under layers of electronics and a digi-carnival fizz. This might be what Sekai No Owari sounds like in the Twilight Zone. Yet the…
After deconstructing themselves thoroughly on last year’s wonderful Sasayaki, Tokyo’s Mitsume are back with a new EP this May, and they’ve shared the title track to it. “Memai” isn’t quite as stripped down as some of the highlights from 2014, yet it does nail the repetition they do so well, sprinkled with dizzying electronic details….