This is the final installment of this feature, mostly as a way to get a few brief comments in about albums that could very well appear on our Top 30 albums of the year list (fast approaching, whoa!). Some of the below could even land pretty high up…. Kaela Kimura 8Eight8 Somehow, Kaela Kimura’s new…
After a few months of forcing one of my friends to travel all the way out to Osaka to do various activities…which, all tended to end in playing Angry Birds…I decided to save him (some) train fare and visit Nagoya for one Saturday night. Having avoided Aichi’s biggest city for a while now, my night…
Some Small Gifts came out back in the early days of summer, when temperatures rest at their most comfortable and ice cream seemed like a wise daily purchase post work. Now my walk home features leaves caught between yellow and red, and stops at convenience stores where they’ve already set up Christmas aisles next to…
Wrote a review for Canopies And Drapes’ debut EP Violet, Lilly, Rose, Daisy for the Japan Times. Check it out here. I’ve been hinting at how much I like this four-song collection for a while on, but now here is a summary of my thoughts on it. As mentioned in the review, CaD’s went and…
Cubismo Grafico Five Half Dozen Not the actual artwork, but a filler photo. A lot of artists behind great albums in 2010 came back with impressive EPs in 2011, highlighted by She Talks Silence and Puffyshoes (well, I guess that was a mini album). Half Dozen isn’t quite in the same league, more of an…