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New And Vice Versa: “Its Me”
大阪を拠点とするAnd Vice Versaのアルバム、”E. Tender”は4月に発表されていましたが、まだそれについて書けていませんでした。しかし聴き続ける事で、今では私の2012年度のベストアルバムの一つになりました。 And Vice Versaは単音を好むアーティストだと感じます。そして”E. Tender”で使われているノイズはまるで触る事のできるような質感を持っています。 And Vice Versaの新曲、”Its Me”は、E. Tenderには含まれていないものの、そのスタイルはとても似ています。アルバムでも使われていた素晴らしい音が多く使われていて、その特徴的なシンセや、エフェクトが加えられたボーカルは何重にも重ねられ、幻想的なレイヤーを生み出しています。更に、And Vice Versaは曲中に、見つけたら嬉しくなる、細かい工夫を多く盛り込んでいます。”Its Me”とアルバムの曲の違いと言えば長さでしょう。アルバムの曲は3分程なのに比べ、この曲は6分半近くあります。でも、この曲は一瞬たりとも興味を離さないよう、上手く工夫されています。
Sharp Corners: Plastic Pop’s “I Die In Tomorrow”
This is, as the project’s name implies, a pop song. It just happens to be captured through a very damaged prism, all the catchiness of “I Die In Tomorrow” turned sinister and unsettling, a bad dream rendered into a just-under-two-and-a-half-minute track. The beat is jagged and the vocals are blurred out, the actual words nearly…
Laid-Back Whimsy: Nohtenkigengo’s OOO
Whimsy might not actually be the right word for what Nohtenkigengo does. Sure, the bulk of the music this solo project creates involves the sort of instruments that make one’s twee radar go off like mad, including xylophone, accordion and all sorts of other cutesy sounds. This sonic choice…along with the voice singing all the…
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It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally arrived – Jesse Ruins’ proper debut album has finally arrived, and The Fader is streaming it all right now. A lot has changed since the CUZ ME PAIN label emerged from the shadows of MySpace – Jesse Ruins has evolved from a solo-project of Nobuyuki Sakuma…
Valentine’s Day Specials: Neon Cloud, HNC, The Eglle, A Bunch Of People Covering Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid”
Lots and lots to love today…so lets dive into all of it. Way better than chocolate, yeah? The biggest news of the day comes courtesy of Flau, who’ve released the follow up to mysterious outfit Neon Cloud’s stunning debut Knit. Scar finds the group…and it is becoming more and more clear Cuushe is involved somehow…
New Picnic Women: II Women EP
Ahhh Picnic Women, that jokester. The title to his latest collection of juke cuts comes off like the punchline to what he pulls off the title track, “II Women.” On that song, Picnic Women takes Mariah Carey’s and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day,” specifically the vocals from Boyz II Men, and pitches them both…
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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