#30 Snail’s House Alien Pop II + Alien Pop III Near the start of 2019, Yasutaka Nakata shared the theme song he composed for an anime series about Virtual YouTubers, sporting vocals delivered by the digital influences themselves. It sounded a lot like Nakata trying to mimic the innocent bleeping of Snail’s House. Consider it…
Since I can’t just copy-paste the general gist of what I wrote last time, I’ll simply say that Himitsu No Merry-Go-Roung works as a kind of booster pack to early 2019 highlight Hoshizora Romantic. It adds the one element not really present on Mikazuki Bigwave’s breakthrough, which is guest vocals, helping transform familiar future funk…
It’s always good to see a band start to upend their own formula. The central driver of Yahyel’s music has long been tension, generated by vocals swinging between raw and filtered set over an electronic creep. Lately, that march has lead to moments of release, and on a song like “Iron” it even became kind…
Funk, boogie, acid jazz, city pop, even a little disco — all these styles have come back into vogue in some way or another in Japan. It has mainly been spurred on by young bands, some raised on Jamiroquai and others smelling an opportunity. Yet plenty of smaller acts have come around to it as…
Considering the general cute bend so much electronic music out of Japan right now takes, it’s really nice to have the blackhole sounds of Osaka’s Yullippe around as a counter of sorts. She has been creating industrial-tinged tracks for a while now, releases such as Loop Bell and the song “Black Moon” suffocating listeners with…