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.
Long-running electronic artist Hiroshi Watanabe has released a decent amount of music under the name Kaito, yet he’s mostly been taking it easy in 2015. Yet as the end of the year starts creeping up, he’s gone and shared two new live recordings of previously unreleased tracks on his own. These aren’t little presents, though….
I’m always split by music trying to capture the vibe of the 1980s, of which plenty exists in Japan. Sometimes it works amazingly well, other times it feels like a really bad painting of a member’s only jacket. Problem is, I’m never really positive what separates the retro-tinged stuff I end up liking and the…
You’ve got a winner when your rap video features choreographed dancing and lyrics that skirt pretty close to J-pop category. Normcore Boyz have found themselves in the less charming “how much can we sound like American rap without adding anything new” camp a few times, but in recent times have been far stranger, creating songs…
Jumping off of something written the other day, it’s nice to see artists continue to push their sounds into new directions rather than simply abandon them or let outside influence shape it for them. Yunomi boasts one of the more distinct sonic palettes in Japan, a mix of hyperactive EDM-inspired electronics merged with traditional Japanese…
Osaka indie-pop trio Les Glass Glacé has two new songs online right now that are worth your time if you like delicate-but-bouncy music. “Sixpence Might Change Your Whole World” is the highlight, a bit of twinkly twee hop-scotch featuring keyboards and the lyric “ex-boyfriend couldn’t understand/ sixpence might change your whole world.” It’s gleeful stuff…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT3IHmb-YrQ&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] When I saw Wienners live two months ago, I noted how pointless it would be to listen to the band outside of a live show. After watching the video for the band’s new song “Idol”…I’m pretty sure I’ll stick to my guns. Not to imply this song fails to capture Wienners – the hyperactive…