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.
Tokyo indie-pop outfit has been making sunny, twisty songs for a while now, highlighted by the 2010 collection Golden Summer. It has been a bit since any new material from the group appeared online, but here comes the skip of “Heartbeat” to highlight what makes them jump out from an ever-crowded field. It features imperfect-but-endearing…
Electronic producer Yuichi Nagao teamed up with Omoide Label for this EP, a brief but whimsical set. It doesn’t come far from last year’s enchanting Reverie, and Lumina finds Nagao further exploring how to turn twinkling sounds into dance-leaning cuts. Bells and chimes are the go-to element — part of the charm here is, at…
The cutesy stuff ends almost right away, following a Vocaloid-powered “cooking lesson” about how to make juke music. Hajimete No Juke then proceeds to show just how much actual variety the Chicago-born style allows. This is really just another juke compilation featuring Japanese creators from Omoide Label, and as is often the case with any…
Continuing on the theme of “Tokyo…weird place to live,” Osaka’s Cloudy Busey sounds afraid to live in Tokyo on “I’m Afraid To Live In Tokyo.” The song nails an anxiousness about moving to…well, it could apply to any massive city, between the cost of everything and fear of natural disasters. The milestone here? This is…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHHu8j90oFQ”] 8-bit warriors YMCK join fellow Japanese group Lullatone in jumping on the iPhone app bandwagon. “YMCK Player” allows users to play a video-game-sounding keyboard and even improvise over songs already on your Apple product. The application…which will cost ya a mere 350 yen…also comes with a new YMCK jam. Oh you can listen to…
I’ve been sitting on this one for, like, five days, because I Keep waffling on what to even say about it. This collection comes form a set of names revolving around Wasabi Tapes who have been making gleefully chaotic sounds for about a year now, and Gargoyle takes it up another notch. It’s a rush…