Here’s a new video from Chabe (who records as Cubismo Grafico and fronts Cubismo Grafico Five), for a song from his album last year. “Rewind (Holiday 91)” was one of the laid-back highlights of Me., which was this blog’s choice for the 23rd best album of 2011. Watch above.
Trying to pin the artist known as Mom to one specific trend proves pointless. Which, funny enough, might actually be all the hook needed. The album G.E.E.K comes courtesy of Ano(t)raks, but stands as a particularly odd addition to their catalog. It starts out feeling both fitting and timely with the laid-back funk of “Boyfriend,”…
Timothy Workが夏にリリースしたセルフタイトルのEPは、わずか４曲収録ながら幅広い音楽性を堪能する事ができます。そもそも、2012年に活躍したアーティスト達はジャンルの枠を飛び越える事が多かったですね。Moscow Clubもインディーポップからよりエレクトロなポップまでこなしていますし、Taquwamiの音楽性は常に変化しています。今回紹介するこのTimothy Work EPにはキャッチーな一貫したテーマ等は無いのですが、純粋に完成度の高い曲の集合体だと言えるでしょう。ミニマルなエレクトロ曲”London Echoes”に続くのは、My Bloody Valentineの”When You Sleep”のギターをよりやわらかくしたようなデリケートなインディーポップサウンドが特徴的な”Waves (You Heard)”。一筋縄にはいかないですね…と思ったとたんに次は色んな意味でエフェクトがかけられたラップが特徴的な”Hollywood!”が…最後の”Roll The Dice”は美しいコーラスとピアノが心地よく、オススメです。ダウンロードはこちらから。
This blog has been singing the praises of Cuushe for a while…whether in her solo state or working under the Neon Cloud name…so you probably don’t need more sentences here gushing about one of Japan’s best dream-pop makers going (hmmmm, lot of praise in that sentence, already too late). Well, here’s a reminder that her…
DJ Obake, at first brush, just makes solid dance music. Listen to “Bubblicious ’99” and admire how the track builds up to a great moment of catharsis, where shiny synth beams break through the song and make it even more triumphant. Good dance track! Or the funhouse that is “I Hate This World,” which sounds…
Critical to Yoshino Yoshikawa’s music has always been the depth he brings to his music. His songs feature depth and a lot of clever details that push them out from an internet-centered scene that sometimes does the immediate, overwhelming vibe too much. “Mirage,” the first number to emerge from his forthcoming album Event Horizon via…
Japan’s indie-pop spring looks to transition into an especially twee summer, as more and more bands inspired by 80’s indie-pop pop up, forcing people like me to enter “jangly” into Thesaurus.com in hopes of not burning out on that adjective. Osaka’s The Paellas add to this vocab challenge, as they are certainly…hold on, “clinking?” How…