Sleep Well is a fragile collection, the sort of song cycle built on small details from seemingly uneventful occurrences (“Raincoat,” “Morning Clouds,” “Sunday”) but finding beauty in it all regardless of how insignificant it seems. This is how There Is A Fox, based in Kyoto and one of the minds behind Dear Ear Records out…
Japanese label Flau – home to Cuushe, Cokiyu and many more fantastic artists – has welcomed another new domestic act aboard with Rima Kato. Her story sounds interesting – formerly part of a lo-fi outfit, Kato sorta vanished from the spotlight and recorded in private for a long time. She released a collection of those…
“Demo” is a bit of a frightening word, because one fears that the music they are hearing isn’t a finished product, but just a sketch bound to be erased and reconstructed multiple times down the line. Why not just wait for the final product? Osaka singer-songwriter Kaori Motoi’s first release, Home Sick, comes with that…
Semi-mysterious outfit QQIQ have a new album out, and they’ve cooked up an interesting way of selling it. This page breaks it down, but the quick summary: e-mail them for a download link, listen, and two weeks later they’ll ask you how much you think it was worth. And…send them the money. It’s a clever…
It was a pretty good month, I wouldn’t blame them. Milk Film is an indie-pop trio from Tokyo who have been kicking around for a bit, and who have just released a new album called I’ll Remember October. Right now, you can download a two-song single for free or pay 700 yen for the full…