Cooking For You
No reason to waste words on this one – let the drifting guitars and occasional bleeping chaos wash over you as you listen to Cooking For You. Enveloping stuff.
No reason to waste words on this one – let the drifting guitars and occasional bleeping chaos wash over you as you listen to Cooking For You. Enveloping stuff.
Here’s a jump in recording quality to get pumped about – Lera Rae’s first offering, “Dreamer,” boasted an enjoyable driving melody buried under some rough production, but that lo-fi feel could sometimes turn the song into a bumpy listen. Sophomore song “After The Beach Trip” still features a few muddled touches – looking at you,…
Before I write anything else, I should mention…I really liked Especia’s Primera mini-album from earlier this year. As someone who still listens to Gusto a lot and feels the same joy from it as I did in December, Primera pretty much delivered on everything the group has done well — glistening City Pop revival stuffed…
Perhaps in an effort to counter Uniqlo’s line of doofy music t-shirts, the GAP has recruited a handful of younger, vaguely “in” Japanese artists for a new campaign. Up until this week, they had gotten Awesome City Club,* Happy and Never Young Beach to model clothes and play music, an alright line-up but not one…
ΔKTR is having a hell of a year. He’s released two of 2017’s best collections of cloudy brained beats, taking the forgotten sounds of the past and warping their best moments. Add another one to the collection — Katalog clocks in at just over ten minutes, but the four tracks within offer up some of…
This is the year where EDM – the buzzy, boisterous electronic blanket term referring to everyone from Skrillex to Avicii to Tiesto – gets a test run in Japan. So far, it has proven a touch trendy – record stores now have corners devoted to that three-letter genre, and a handful of compilations that are…
It opens like a bunch of kids who listened to Marquee Moon a couple dozen times and went from there, until they let their peppy sides come through and ease back on the stutter-step guitar work. Osaka’s Mymeans soon transition into a springy number that just hops along, aided by the vocals which move at…