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.
Wherein Boogie Idol covers the theme song to Supermarket Sweep, and does more to play around with the ideas often attributed to vaporwave better than any modern form of that niche genre going. This moment, closing out the producer’s latest release Shitashimiyasusa, offers a good summation of what makes the album and Boogie Idol in…
Is everything just going to be a loop backwards from now on? This isn’t about Upusen’s Signal specifically, though it does factor into the larger trend. Maybe it’s just Japan’s current obsession with all things ’90s — this movie is literally “do you remember gyaru fashion and Tamagothchi?” — or the Western world’s love of…
In which PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET score the iconic scene from American Beauty where some people watch a plastic bag blowing in around before calling it “life affirming” or something something. I mean, this COULD score such a mundane happening – the genres called shoegaze afterall, named after the literal fact people would just stare…
A song very much worth your time is Laurel Halo’s song utilizing the voice of Vocaloid avatar Hatsune Miku, “Until I Make U Smile.” It’s a sparse, slowly building up number featuring the familiar digi-quiver, and it offers something you rarely hear in popular Vocaloid music — space, and a lot of it. It feels…
Metome’s been in a jaunty mindset recently. “Cocoon” is the latest track from the Osaka artist to embrace swift rhythms and acid squeaks, as for at least half its run the number is just pure loose-limbed dance music, topped off by some vocal samples underlining that point. But midway through, Metome introduces a synth melody…
Not to bore you with my life, but gahhhh what a busy week. It’s the sort of seven-day stretch where producer Yoshino Yoshikawa’s ever-chipper music would be oh so welcome and…hey, he just released a new song, “Abandoned Theme Park!” Despite a title that sounds creepy, like those abandoned Six Flags parks, Yoshikawa conjures up…