A few days ago Second Royal Records posted all of the tracks to Friends’ debut album Let’s Get Together Again to SoundCloud. It will be released as a 10″ record in September in Japan, but can (and should!) be enjoyed right now.
Needless to say, more on this one later.
I intended to write this all the way back in October. Back when the weather hadn’t turned freezing and I could barely order food at a restaurant, I stumbled upon The Bawdies via a flier advertisement. They would be playing a Flake Records show in Kobe, along with a handful of other Japanese groups and…
Last Friday, as part of Red Bull Music Festival Tokyo’s programming, producers Seiho and Okadada held an event called At The Corner at Shibuya’s WWW X venue. It featured a lot of young artists from all over the nation — including this blog’s faves The Neon City and Toiret Status — and the one that…
The vision surrounding a Boys Age album tends to be more unexpected than the music itself. New World Pregnancy, a long gestating full length, comes billed as “an imagined soundtrack” to a story one half of the Saitama rock duo wrote. It gets pretty detailed…a machine goes sentient…and stands as the most ambitious bit of…
Kyoto project Sawa Angstrom has been around since 2017, featuring a trio of artists who have dabbled in all sorts of other indie projects over the years. With this one though, soft and reflective is what they aim for. “Tape Loop” offers a gentle entry into their style, and it stands out as the highlight…
“Multiverse” finds the usually frantic Parkgolf slowing down considerably. This just-under-five-minute number finds the producer trying out something close to new age music, as this number doesn’t so much build as it recedes in and out, bringing in new pieces every once in awhile. I’m not sure Parkgolf should drop the high-speed format in favor…
Yesterday, we saw the first taste of LLLL’s Zoom-Lens-released album, and now we have another American/Japanese partnership to highlight. Chicago-based label Gary Records is no stranger to releasing non-American music – they’ve also spotlighted groups from Taiwan, Australia and Ireland – and they’ve brought Tokyo’s fuzzed-out surf-rock trio Teen Runnings into the fold for a…