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Funny Little Words: Annie The Clumsy
A little over halfway through Annie The Clumsy’s Vol. 1 collection, the singer plays a lovely little number about being with a lover, a lover who just overwhelms our protagonist with presumed swagger. Then, the proverbial shank to our thighs – “everything you do/makes my uterus ache/not my heart but my uterus ache.” Everything about…
New Hotel Mexico: “boy”
boy from HOTEL MEXICO on Vimeo. Hotel Mexico’s new album Her Decorated Post Love dropped yesterday, and definitely worth your time. The Kyoto group also released a video for that album’s lead-off track, “boy,” yesterday, which you can watch above. This song bares a slight resemblance to Hotel Mexico’s older “Starling, Tiger, Fox,” what with…
New Moscow Club: “Lizaveta”
“Well, it is April,” writes Moscow Club in regards to new song “Lizaveta.” Works for us! “Lizaveta” finds the Tokyo outfit reaching a happy median between the two styles that have, up to this point, defined them. If you started listening to the group in 2012, you wouldn’t be blamed if you thought they were…
New Lullatone: Summer Songs
When someone wonders “what the song of the summer” is going to be, what comes to mind? That’s usually code for wondering what’s going to be the most popular single of the season, what one will hear blaring from passing cars and at outdoor BBQs. It’s gonna be energetic and upbeat. And those are all…
Intrigue Galore: Tonight? : “hby beer beer”
Honestly, I’m still not sure how this grabbed my attention. Was it the name of the band and song, neither of which really make any sense? Was it their minimalist Bandcamp, featuring just this one song and with a header that’s nothing more than an e-mail address? The track at the center of all this,…
Pitch Shifted: Winona Hyper’s “Promise”
This song isn’t introducing anything novel to the Japanese independent music landscape – producers pitch-shifting a vocal sample or two and building a song around it were all over the place in 2012, highlighted by the likes of Taquwami and Seiho. Yet Winona Hyper’s “Promise” does a solid job of this style, taking only a…
New Elen Never Sleeps: “Slow (Neu)”
“Slow” originally appeared on Moscow Club’s C86 compilation back in the spring, but has now been touched up a bit (hence the “Neu” in the title) and sounds a lot crisper than Elen Never Sleeps’ original version. Well, it sounds as crisp as something so hazy can sound – the song title is almost an understatement, because “Slow” practically crawls, the guitars and drums sounding glacial. It’s all intentional, though, a decision meant to match up with Elen Never Sleeps repeated cries of “but you slow down/slow down/slow down,” delivered in a dejected-but-pretty voice that this project has gotten so good at utilizing. The original version was good, but this slightly fleshed-out version shows what can happen when an artist spends time perfecting their creations. Listen below.
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New Miii: “Vacillate”
Following up on this year’s tense, rollercoaster of an album Plateau, “Vacillate” finds Miii letting off a little more steam. There isn’t really a build or slow creep towards release — it bursts out with skippy percussion, accented by, uhhhh, some very British sounding vocal samples, which eventually skip over themselves en route to a…
New Madegg: “Mono U Ni”
Was literally brushing my teeth when I noticed that Kyoto’s Madegg posted a new track called “Mono U Ni” to his SoundCloud page. Take a listen to this spacey…as in minimalist, not constellations…track below while I wash my face. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/22052464″]
New Woopheadclrms: Vs o.t.O.g.I
The Japanese experimental community built around high-impact samples and disjointed electronic melodies that should rupture but always meld continues strong in 2018, and Aichi’s Woopheadclrms only adds to the growing catalog. They waste no time getting attention — second song “Empire of Shopping Mall” opens with spacious electronic waves, but a hi-def scream rips through…
New Tomoyu: “All Hope Is Gone”
Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s Osaka producer Tomoyu with “All Hope Is Gone,” a rattling number sure to give you plenty of good vibes on Turkey Day. “Unsettling” is a word I love to roll out, and “All Hope Is Gone” delivers that feeling plenty, fueled by icy drum machine patterns and (especially) the way the voices…
Texture Time: MimiCof’s “Foil” And “Tunnel”
Usually when someone talks about how a song “feels,” they focus on the emotional side of the music and really how they feel listening to it. MimiCof, the project of Berlin-based Midori Hirano, makes music you feel in an almost-tactile way, like she tells you to shut your eyes and touch a mysterious object that…
New Capsule: “Step On The Floor”
Yasutaka Nakata was starting to test my faith a bit. After a run of great Perfume singles and the lovely Capsule full-length Player, dude clearly started getting a little bored of pop-leaning production and embraced his dance side. He masterminded Capsule’s World Of Fantasy last year, a club-centric album that mostly embraced the abrasive sounds…
