This one just went up, so I’ll post it right before I go to bed. CUZ ME PAIN group Faron Square just posted a new song called “Echoes Of Love.” Listen to it below.
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Ace timing on this one — indie-pop outfit Caro Kissa dropped One Summer Day right as real summer…no more week-long rainstorms, but rather brutal-but-liberating “feels like 39 Celsius” becoming the norm…started. The three song set offers up a welcome breeze to the just-born season, the first two songs finding Caro Kissa in their element of…
First off, let’s acknowledge how strange it is to see Paellas prepping for an album on Universal Music. Perhaps I’m just getting weepy with this blog’s tenth anniversary coming in the near future, but seeing them go from playing 4 a.m. at a tiny Shibuya venue to this is pretty cool! Paellas have locked on…
The artists in the Trekkie Trax universe have been inching towards more songs featuring vocals — or at least tracks suitable for someone to sing or rap over. Masayoshi Iimori’s work has seen Dotama rap over it, while Carpainter has co-worked on songs by budding Avex star Daichi Miura. For the most part, these have…
Remember a week ago when I said the move was for once-online-only electronic artists to form pop-focused units with vocalists? Welp, add another example to the pile. Maltine-adjacent creator Nagomu Tamaki has teamed up with an artist named Erica, who based on some quick search-engine-powered research was in the idol unit Electric Ribbon, to become…
Tokyo boasts plenty of solid indie-pop outfits to get all melancholy about, but Kansai remains king when it comes to guitar music built for mid-afternoon sulk sessions. Kailios, out of Kyoto, are the latest reminder of this, with the recently released number “Round And Round.” This one will either snag your attention right away or…
Remember flip phones? Uami sure does, and “K. Kuyou Gara” serves as an ode to “Galapagos” phones, those chunky pieces of plastic that were once so ubiquitous (and kinda still are with salarymen who just need to make calls to one another). It’s a delicate song, featuring muffled vocals and lyrics reflecting on the fantasy…