New Boyish: “Farewell Kisses”
東京のインディー・ポップグループ、BoyishのSoundcloudにはもう一ヶ月程前から”Farewell Kisses”という曲が公開されていたのですが、今度は嬉しい事にビデオが公開されました。ギターの主張の強いBoyishらしい楽曲をお楽しみ下さい。
東京のインディー・ポップグループ、BoyishのSoundcloudにはもう一ヶ月程前から”Farewell Kisses”という曲が公開されていたのですが、今度は嬉しい事にビデオが公開されました。ギターの主張の強いBoyishらしい楽曲をお楽しみ下さい。
This year, Tokyo’s Moscow Club have been balancing precariously between electronic goodness and cheesy gloop. They haven’t abandoned the indie-pop sound that grabbed some attention last year – see the lovely “Radio Vietnam” – but their 2012 output has relied heavily on synths and keyboards, the band conjuring up a spacey, 80’s new wave vibe…
Diane Halls don’t release too much, but when they pop back up on the radar, it’s always with something pretty solid. “A Pain That Is Felt” offers a pretty good hint of its mood from the title alone – its a guitar-centric drifter featuring very, very little vocals (the ones that do show up mumble…
It’s appropriate that Tokyo group Buddy Girl And Mechanic’s debut album came out in February 2013, a month that has been surprisingly bone chilling in more than weather ways. Buddy Girl And Mechanic unfolds at a slow pace, the band playing every track hear at a relaxed pace that allows the music itself to reveal…
It makes sense that Taquwami would offer up a remix of a Ryan Hemsworth track on the Canadian producer’s new EP Still Awake. Besides the obvious fact that Hemsworth has been upping Tokyo’s brightest producer for a while now and has included him in various mixes before, the two share a similar genre-blurring approach to…
I do not profess to being a guy who knows much about Japanese hip-hop. I have about as basic an understanding of the scene one can get, but that’s it – I don’t know the intricacies or the regional differences or even, like, the fashions (I think Yankees’ caps are popular?). What I do know,…
Monday morning huh? That’s no good. Here’s some new music from Japan to get you through this day. – Nagoya producer House Of Tapes has been expanding sonically from his original, punishing take on dance music. New track “Mellow Days” isn’t the acoustic hammock-jam that would signal a total about-face, but it is certainly one…
“Farewell Kisses” was up on Tokyo indie-pop group Boyish’s SoundCloud about a month ago, but now it comes attached with a found-footage video. The song is right in Boyish’s comfort zone – the sort of guitar-driven song that you can bounce along too but also cry to.
This one’s billed as a single, but RGL’s Machine Love plays out like one large journey. The total playtime of these three tracks certainly helps with that feeling, as the latest from the Tokyo producer comes in at around 18 minutes. Just as crucial, though, is how this trio of tracks plays off of one…
I talked to Turntable Films’ lead singer Yosuke Inoue for The Japan Times about their new album Small Town Talk, and it was published today (well in the physical paper). In a good bit of timing, they shared the video for the song “Light Through,” which you can watch above. Small Town Talk is definitely…
We’ve already written about the album this one comes from, but now “Sugar Summer” has a video and…well, the season feels right to revisit it, so why not? “Sugar Summer” is a highlight from Sing And Pretty, finding the duo embracing girl group pacing alongside a nice indie-pop chug. Feel good vibes for the remaining…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQhjOI2aBHI”] Watch one of the more buzzed about bands out of Japan , The Suzan, perform their song “Come Come” at New York City’s Japan Society during a benefit concert to raise money for people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Also, donate to Japan Society!
Omoide Label has a knack for putting together wonderfully energetic compilations, whether they be focused on juke or otherwise. Their latest various-artists get-together veers towards the latter, though Your Sound sounds a bit more energetic. Budding producer Nyankobrq serves up a squiggly bit of electro-dance that seems descended from the DJ Newtwon school of production…
Maybe one day I’ll indulge myself and make a hierarchy of things in music that just get me going, but pretty high up on that list would be “singing run through electronic/digital filters and/or other technology to make it sound less human (or, at least, more interesting). New Sheena Ringo…great the moment she starts singing…