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New May.e: “Bowling”
It hasn’t even been a week since I went into a tizzy writing about May.e’s album Mattiola, one of the year’s most stunning releases and one rich in FEELINGS. Turns out May.e is a restless soul, and also capable of churning out high-quality music at will – you can hear a new song of bare-bones…
Slow Wonder: Ikebana’s “Rose,” “Kiss” And “Alone”
It takes nearly two minutes for Japanese duo Ikebana’s “Rose” to really reach…somewhere. Before that, for all those seconds, the pair create a slowly unfolding iciness that sounds like it might never thaw out. Only when voices…unintelligible, virtually humming…enter into the scene do things start to warm. And even then, it still takes time. Eventually,…
New Pops: Shiggy Jr.’s “Saturday Night To Sunday Morning”
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Maltine Running This: Carpainter And Yoshino Yoshikawa
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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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Uami is one of those artists who releases songs at a rapid clip, making weekly visits to their SoundCloud a good exercise to get into. Some numbers stand out among the rest, though, and “Yoshinayo” stands as a recent highlight. What starts as some easy-breezy keyboard notes soon gives way to a busier main melody,…
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New Taquwami: Moyas EP
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