Boris are back with a new album this June, called (appropriately enough) Noise. Well, here’s the world’s first taste of it with “Quicksilver.” It’s a driving number with some nice touches…like the screaming that’s just lurking a little lower in the mix. And it goes for just over seven minutes. Listen below.
Kyoto whizz-kid Madegg has a few new developments to talk about tonight. His SoundCloud page reveals his first proper album will be “coming this spring,” which is pretty exciting, especially because it will come out on Flau Records, home to Neon Cloud and Cokiyu. It also appears the young producer has developed a visual trend…
Lullatone Spinning Mobile from lullatone on Vimeo. Lullatone continue their minimalist march to becoming the new Babies ‘R’ Us with their latest offering, the Lullatone spinning mobile kit. As the video above reveals, you can arrange the shapes however you’d like and your kid will love it! Adorable stuff, which you can buy here.
No individual’s history is ever clear cut, but HNC’s artist trajectory is pretty easy to sum up. She’s been around for 15 years now, starting off on the edges of the Shibuya-kei scene, and then the neo Shibuya-kei world of the early 2000s. This period was punctuated by a few solo albums and some appearances…
This week, Suiyoubi No Campanella’s major label debut comes out via Warner Japan, and…even though I was definitely later to this artist than many others (thanks Tumblr!)…this situation is something fans of many artists before and many in the future will deal with. The weird excitement of seeing just how an artist you’ve backed for…
Call it a happy coincidence between my music writing and online-culture writing, but this week I’m (kinda) diving into the world of “moe” for the latter. And, at the same time, a new anime-sample-heavy EP from Tomatosim drops via Omoide Label. I’m not particularly into anime — I know most of the bigger names mostly…
Consider this the sorbet following yesterday’s emotional bloodletting. Digital Clinic 2000 are a bunch of goofballs, and bless ’em for that. “April Stretch” serves as their proper debut, and it is a silly number built around the group delivering echo-soaked spoken word bits over a slinky synth-driven beat. Just check the cheap video coming with…