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New Snail’s House: L’été

ByPatrick St. Michel July 8, 2018

Music has been pushed to the background more than ever in 2018. It isn’t a new development exactly, but generally speaking songs often get treated like wallpaper. See mood-centered playlists on streaming services, or how contemporary soundtracks to YouTube influencer videos sound, or the seamlessness between commercials and original works. Changing times, but as it…

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New Elen Never Sleeps: Flowers For Hesse

ByPatrick St. Michel July 7, 2018

There comes a painful moment where you realize you are only getting older, and all the things that you love lost to time are not necessarily going to carry over to future listeners. For me, that has mostly centered around this period in Japanese indie music — let’s say 2011 to like 2013, maybe 2014…

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Burn Down: Firemj’s “Night Coast”

ByPatrick St. Michel July 6, 2018

Plenty of people can make beats, but a sign of an artist to keep an eye on is someone who can make a beat feel like a story. Firemj — “fire emoji,” if I’m reading closely enough — pulls that off on “Night Coast,” a number that uses pacing to its advantage and shows that…

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New Poncho + Casino Tart: “Take Time”

ByPatrick St. Michel July 3, 2018

Some swift, good juke courtesy of Osaka’s Poncho + Casino Tart on their latest release. The two Satanicpornocultshop members craft a pretty simple but deeply pleasing track with “Take Time,” letting some flute-like sounds do their breezy thing while some helium-ed up vocal samples run over, adding a wooziness to every second of the song….

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New Yurufuwa Gang: “Palm Tree”
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New Yurufuwa Gang: “Palm Tree”

ByPatrick St. Michel July 3, 2018

One of the more jarring experiences you can have at a Japanese rap show is watching a relatively straightforward performer go on…and then be followed by Yurufuwa Gang. Recently, I watched Keiju of collective Kandytown (once known as Young Juju) play club Unit to an excited crowd, and like a lot of Japanese rappers, it…

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