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This just slithers, all icy synths and vocals. Miu Mau are a new-wave trio, and on “Monochrome” they have created a prickly number that’s both catchy and a touch mysterious. It is a relatively sparse song – some leading guitar and synth bouncing, which gives way to just drum and woozy synth notes. This backdrop…
In A Place In The Country: Nigori’s “There Is Always A Sad Thing….”
I spent two years living in Mie Prefecture, a stretch of land nestled between Osaka and Nagoya that was part mountainous and part coastal. Caught in the middle of those topographies, sits Matsusaka. It is as suburban-rural as it gets in a place where both those terms are flexed to the maximum – it’s a…
New Carpainter: Gravity Fails EP
The real news hook here might be that electronic artist/awkward-pairing master Idiot Pop has a record label. The first mp3 release on his titular imprint comes from the fantastic Carpainter, already responsible for one of the year’s finest EPs, and now back with two new songs on the Gravity Falls EP. His two originals are…
LLLL Unveils Video For “Drowned Fish”
東京のアーティスト、LLLLが今年リリースされた名デビューEPからの楽曲、”Drowned Fish”のビデオをリリースしました。花びらの浮くバスタブや縄跳びが観たい人…もしくは、実験的かつ聴きやすい良質なポップ・ミュージックが好きな人におすすめです。
New The Wedding Mistakes: “Though All Eternity?”
This has been tagged post-rock, and at first I was ready to skip this one over completely. “Man, post-rock, I don’t have time for that,” I thought, expecting some stab at Explosions In The Sky grandiosity. Turns out The Wedding Mistakes have a very, very different definition of post-rock than me. This collaboration, between Miii…
New Shortcake Collage Tape: Spirited Summer
So…vaporwave. It is (was?) one of those Internet-spawned genres that sounds interesting written down…accelerationists! Trash music! Capitalism!…but gets confusing fast when you start trying to figure out what vaporwave actually sounds like. Even if you settle on a sonic definition of what it is…to me, I consider it music built out samples taken mostly from…
New Cuushe Music Video: “Do You Know The Way To Sleep”
Flau’s Cuushe has a new video for her song “Do You Know The Way To Sleep” off of this year’s Girl You Know That I Am Here But The Dream, and it matches up well with the slow-motion feel of the song. The clip slows down found footage of ballerinas to emphasize the beauty and weirdness (that neck on the one dancer jutting out) of their movements. Watch above.
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New Lovely Summer Chan: “Anata Wa Tobacco, Watashi Wa Shabon”
That’s one clever way to promote your album — drop in the album digest in the middle of the whole song. Lovely Summer Chan, one of the busiest names in the Tokyo indie scene over the last three years, will release her first album through a major label this week. “Anata Wa Tobacco, Watashi Wa…
Woozed Out: Supercream’s “Hide In Plain Sight”
Look, sometimes I try to be cute with these intros…talking about the weather, current events, a pun!…but today I’ll just say that I’m sick and have been out of it since whatever time I woke up. I’ve only done a passing breeze through my usual music sources and wasn’t really focusing on much. This song,…
New Shiggy Jr.: “Summertime Love”
Tokyo outfit Shiggy Jr. are specifically talented at two things: 1. Songs about the summer 2. Late breakdowns that up the drama of the proceeding pop jam significantly. Point two is especially worth pointing out, as it is what transformed last year’s hoppy “Listen To The Music” from a very good single to something I…
Scrambled Ecstasy: samuragosha’s “fake documentary / Wi-Fi”
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New Wallflower: “I Wish Spring Would Last Forever”
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Rock plus jazz equals…what exactly? Sometimes you get great-tastes-together goodness like Sweep The Leg Johnny, other times you get Dave Matthews. Osaka’s The Canvas promote themselves as a retro-leaning unit, jazz meets rock meets “garage,” but the final product sounds solely like the first. And thank goodness for that. Despite some electric guitar lending an…