Flau’s Cuushe has a new video for her song “Do You Know The Way To Sleep” off of this year’s Girl You Know That I Am Here But The Dream, and it matches up well with the slow-motion feel of the song. The clip slows down found footage of ballerinas to emphasize the beauty and…
This year has seen a lot of really good Japanese indie-pop music spring up, but this scene has also been a bit male-centric. Some bands to pop up in 2012 feature women playing in the band, but they are rarely at the forefront of the group and, save for Osaka’s Twinkle Twinkles and (if you…
When I first listened to Tokyo’s Give Me Wallets almost a year ago, their music was more math-rock than dancey. The songs featured on their MySpace page reminded me of the precision-minded rock of a band like Foals, which was good but also not particularly tailored for the dance floor (well, maybe a really awkward…
This is something of a Japanese indie-pop power meeting. Osaka’s Post Modern Team, responsible for two of 2012’s best songs in “Heartbreak” and “Never Let You Down,” team up with Twangy Twangy, fronted by Dai Ogasawara who used to be in the Shibuya-kei outfit Candy Eyes, to release a split EP on one of the…
City pop, a genre of music that saw its heyday during the high times of Japan’s bubble economy, has had a bit of a resurgence over the past year. The Japan Times covered this trend towards the retro recently, focusing on the likes of Greeen Linez whose recent album Things That Fade is an excellent…