New Cuushe: “I Love You”

Flau Records has released a new, surreal video for dream-pop artist Cuushe’s “I Love You,” which you can watch above. It is a nearly four-and-a-half-minute jumble of lips, diamonds, spaghetti and much more. It is also a great opportunity to listen to the song once again, off of Cuushe’s Butterfly Case album (which I reviewed over here). “I Love You” is Cuushe’s best song to date, a hypnotic number that spends its first half creeping forward before hitting pay-dirt in its second half, when the singer simply repeats the titular phrase over and over again. This devotion to a simple but powerful sentence – coupled with Cuushe’s singing and the sudden urgency of the music around her – results in one of the most emotionally blunt passages in Japanese music this year.