Dream-pop wonder Cuushe is currently on a little tour of Europe, and she’s also got a nice new collaboration out in the wilds – she appears after the “featured” on “Fall,” a new song from Italian producer Populous, out on Bad Panda Records. Despite where her name falls on the title, Cuushe’s vocals are central to this downtempo track, a number which still manages to be a bit more physical than her usual blurry array of electronics. Listen above.
Few electronic artists in Japan deliver consistency quite like Dubb Parade. But Anthesis features a few new wrinkles to his approach — primarily, the producer brings in guest vocalists to add a human touch to his works. The highlight is the first song, “Jellyfish,” featuring indie-pop outfit Caro Kissa. This is the closest Dubb Parade…
Tricot have a new EP out at the end of the month, and they’ve shared the first taste of it with “Setsuyakuka,” a shifty number that starts as a dash before turning more inward…and then zooms off again to the finish. It’s a formula they’ve stuck to throughout their career, but one they still excel…
boy from HOTEL MEXICO on Vimeo. 今週Hotel Mexicoがリリースしたニュー・アルバムHer Decorated Post Loveは要チェックです。上から試聴出来るリード・トラック”boy”のビデオもリリースされましたよ。この曲のキーボードのフレーズは、以前にリリースされた“Starling, Tiger, Fox”に近いものを感じます。このPost Loveでは、ボーカルはファルセットでなく地声で歌われているのですが、Hotel Mexicoには新しいチャレンジをしても失われない、普遍的な魅力があります。いつまでも幻想的な音楽を作り続けてほしいです。
Maybe the golden days of Tokyo’s indie-rock scene aren’t quite over yet after all. Super VHS — who made a lot of solid songs and one masterclass in fuzzy longing — are finally rolling out their first full-length album, Classics, which is out on December 2. And they return after (what at least felt like)…
Ahhhh, just in time for the crisp early part of Fall…a chance to break out the ol’ “this isn’t technically Japanese” disclaimer for a new season. Chimp Beams feature three Japanese men living in Brooklyn, so this falls under the Caroline/Maia Hirasawa brand of music on this blog, as in it certainly is worth talking…
For every precisely-tuned Perfume or labored-over Arashi, there is at least a basement-venue’s worth of musicians who get by on sheer enthusiasm alone. The sing-a-long indie-pop fuzz of The Weddings or the trippy DIY recordings of Foreignland stand out immediately amongst the sea of similar bands armed only with some instruments and a cheap means…