Similar Posts
New Yucca: “Summer Emotion”
Everyone seems to be in a summer mood as of late…yesterday, POP-OFFICE were brooding about the end of summer, and now Yucca are getting all melancholy thinking about the season. “Summer Emotion” is a sparse tune that sorta just hangs in the air – I’m surprised this lasts only three minutes and 45 seconds. The…
New Soleil Soleil: “Sun”
Dude releases tons of new material all the time but…I don’t remember Osaka’s Soleil Soleil sounding this crisp before. “Sun” sounds clearer than most of songs this producer has made before, the synths shimmering and the percussion clanking clearly, to the point that this actually sounds a lot like neighbor-to-the-north Madegg. It’s a bit more…
Lux Life: group_inou’s “Mansion”
group_inou skirts that line between Japanese rap I write about and Japanese rap I do cover. I am far from knowledgeable about Japanese hip-hop today except for a very general idea of what’s popular in the more serious “rap” scene…and then the one corner I do write about a lot, pop acts taking elements of…
BOYISH Releases New Split EP With For Tracy Hyde, Check The Flower Pool EP Out Now
東京のインディ・ポップ・アーティストBOYISHは、とても忙しく充実した2012年を送っていますね。数々のシングルにスプリット・アルバムやカセット・アルバム、それに加えて多くのライブをこなしています。今週もCanata Recordsから新作EP、Flower Pool EPをFor Tracy Hydeとタッグしてリリースしていて、こちらから購入可能です。収録されている”Shadow Of You”はBOYISHの新曲で、レーベルのホームページでは、”ニュー・ウェーブの流れを汲んだ陰影のある”曲と表現されています。陰影というのは少しオーバーかもしれませんが、確かにSarah Recordsリスペクトだった今までの作品に比べてマイナー調で、囁くようなシンセの使い方はHotel Mexicoとも似ています。今までと変わらないのは呟くようなボーカルなのですが、その独特な距離感も、今回のような雰囲気にはとてもマッチしています。 比べてFor Tracy Hydeはもっと単刀直入です。”Her Sarah Records Collection”という曲なのですが、その名からとても想像しやすい曲になっています。日本語歌詞なのですが、今年はBOYISHを含め英語歌詞のバンドがインディ・ポップには多かったので、珍しいですよね。こんな感じに別の言語での挑戦はとても新鮮で、いつ聴いてもわくわくさせてくれます。視聴は以下から。 Flower Pool EP by Boyish and For Tracy Hyde
New Shortcake Collage Tape: “✈Empire≈Beach☼”
Shortcake Collage TapeのVHSに直接録音したようなサウンドがとても好みです。新曲”✈Empire≈Beach☼” は、過去の名曲”Polaroid Full Of Kisses“にファズのようなフィルターをかけて潰したような作品です。”Empire Beach”は南国風のヴァイブを持っていて、ビーチリゾートのプロモーションで使われていそう。特に印象的な瞬間は、1分40秒くらいの時にスムーズなジャズ・サックスが流れる時で、その穏やかな瞬間にいつまでも留まりたくなります。その後、アニメか映画のサンプルが呟き始め、曲の終わりとともに消えていき、最後に沖縄と囁きます。視聴は以下から。 あと違った意味で注目すべきは、一ヶ月くらい前にリリースされた”Meet Me In Your Dreams”で、これはとても笑わせてくれます。何が面白いかというと、この夏、YouTubeで動画を再生する際に頻繁に流れた、元SDN48の芹那ちゃんが出演していたコマーシャル、芹那 ザ ジレット ジェルジニーがサンプルネタになっているからです。何はともあれ、SCTが彼女の喋りを使って面白くユニークな作品を作ったのは素晴らしい事だと思います。
New i-fls: Wished Nightmare
One of the reasons Tokyo’s mysterious i-fls has become one of the most intriguing music makers of the year thus far is his ability to stick to a sound – in his case, Garageband-crafted melodies that usually last no longer than two minutes – and wring out a plethora of emotion from them. The various…
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.
Similar Posts
New Luby Sparks: “Cherry Red Dress”
Just in time to close out the autumn, Luby Sparks have a new EP of mostly maudlin indie-pop perfect for those who get down when the sun sets a few hours earlier. Save for opener “Perfect” and it’s charge-out-the-gates energy, the exquisitely titled (I’m) Lost In Sadness EP finds the group creating slow-burning downers. “Cherry…
New Yunomi: “Miracle Sugar Land” Featuring Momobako
Plenty of people have come around to producer Yunomi’s maximalist mix of gumball-bright synthesizers and traditional touches, and 2018 has already proven pretty busy. The most notable project he’s undertaken was more or less architecting the debut album from future-bass idols Cy8er, seeing him add in a few more dramatic touches (alongside big dumb drops)….
New Metrotune: “Casio Bay” And “Lesson707”
It is the season for big-budget sequel, so why shouldn’t mysterious producer Metrotune create a sequel to last year’s semi-blogged chillwave zone-out “Casio Beach” just in time to go head-to-head with Harry Potter? “Casio Bay” does everything you’d expect the second-time around to do, choosing to stick to the same formula that worked for the…
New TalkingCity1994: “My Jenifer”
TalkingCity1994’s I Can Feel Your Soul was a constantly chugging affair. That’s not to imply it was 20 minutes of non-stop aggression, but even the lighter moments, moving forward on old-arcade-machine synths, moved with intent. The band’s latest track, “My Jenifer,” isn’t an about-face into ambient music, but it finds TalkingCity1994 moving a lot slower…
New Yahyel: “Rude”
Visuals play a massive role in yahyel’s existence as a band, exemplified at this year’s Fuji Rock Festival. The video for forthcoming single “Rude” played during that set, and was easily the most unnerving part of the band’s set, and it remains just as creepy in an uncanny valley way on its own. It’s also…
New Puffyshoes: “Alright”
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Oj91JcB-o”] Ahhhh Puffyshoes, you know just what people need to hear right now. Glance at any current events site or turn on any terror-inducing 24-hour news channel and you’ll quickly get the sense that the world is undeniably doomed. It goes beyond the front page though – in Japan this time of year marks as…
