大阪のインディーポップ・トリオ、Les Glass Glacéが、繊細かつ軽快な２曲をネットで公開しました。個人的にはハイライトな、”Sixpence Might Change Your Whole World”では、”ex-boyfriend couldn’t understand/ sixpence might change your whole world”という可愛らしい歌詞にそぐう、淡くポップなシンセを堪能できます。暖かい雰囲気は、曲の流れに沿ってさらにアップビートに。一方で、”Cute And Reliable”はどちらかというと取っ付きにくい印象。よりミニマルでスローなこの曲では、”he’s a really nice guy/let’s go see him”という歌詞のように少し現実的すぎるかも。でもリラックスしたこの曲に始まり、”Sixpence”が次に来ると考えると納得です。視聴は以下から。
Not quite time to break out the year-end accolade around these parts yet…getting closer…and that’s good, because producer Tomggg just released a new three-song album via Maltine Records. Despite only boasting a trio of new material, Tomggg overloads almost every second of these numbers with sounds. Each song is named after a Japanese fashion magazine…
THE CHALLENGE: Can Lullatone make the author of this blog feel good thoughts about winter, his least favorite season? THE PARTICIPANTS: Nagoya duo responsible for sweet, nostalgia-glazed music that sometimes leans towards the whimsical. On the other side, some blogger who hates winter. THE MUSIC: Lullatone have been celebrating the seasons over the past six…
Hey, summer going a little too well for you? Having too much fun in the warm weather? Welp, Kansai indie-pop outfit It Happens have the perfect bummer jam to make you wistful. “Track And Field” is an extremely lonely song, just some guitar strumming and downtrodden singing that’s near impossible to understand due to how…
That Nagoya’s House Of Tapes’ debut album Trip Science is an enjoyable experience at all is a small miracle. That sounds harsh, the darkest shade one could throw, but I don’t mean that in a dismissive or ironically surprised way. House Of Tapes’ music has always sounded like a sonic endurance test, the dance-music equivalent…
Jemapur was just another Japanese electronic music producer, posting songs to SoundCloud and popping up at events sometimes. Yet, as more and more young music makers use the Internet as a platform to get their original production out, the field has become very crowded and standing out has become tough. Jemapur has made good stuff…
INNITやIdleMoments等のイベントが象徴しているように、大阪のビート・シーンは非常に大盛況。Magical Mistakesの渦巻くようなサウンドや、Seihoの実験的なビートは、とてもユニークなのと同時にグルーブ感もあります。でも、”Alder”はそのような曲がブラックホールに吸い込まれたかのような印象。IdleMomentsをオーガナイズするEadonmmによるこのトラックは、極めてテンポを抑えた、スローな楽曲。ゆったりと始まり、アンビエントな空気感を堪能しているその時に、ピークを迎えます。シンセサイザーによる壁のようなレイヤーが左右にパンし、異なるテンポのボーカルが、それぞれ違うピッチで奇妙なデュエットを奏でます。ダンスフロアには不向きかもしれませんが、それ以上に、独特な音世界を堪能する事が可能。試聴は以下から。
Osaka indie-pop trio Les Glass Glacé has two new songs online right now that are worth your time if you like delicate-but-bouncy music. “Sixpence Might Change Your Whole World” is the highlight, a bit of twinkly twee hop-scotch featuring keyboards and the lyric “ex-boyfriend couldn’t understand/ sixpence might change your whole world.” It’s gleeful stuff that only gets more upbeat as the song progresses. “Cute And Reliable” isn’t as immediately pleasing – the music is more minimal and slower, and the lyrics hinge on the line “he’s a really nice guy/let’s go see him” which isn’t particularly intriguing, even for a genre known for making the everyday sound fantastical. It is pleasant, though, and a nice break following the skippy “Sixpence.” Listen below.
So a theme has developed this week — songs about living in Tokyo. We’ve had crushing, anxious and now via Datafruits founder Firedrill’s Shimokatastrophe, jittery. The first track “Soda Joint” sets the stage well — what starts as pleasant gets interrupted by a train announcement and away we go on an at times rubbery and…
So this week is probably going to be brutal, and posting is probably going to be a bit less than usual as I try to put a lot of things to bed. But I still want to do some quick hit posts daily, even if they aren’t much more than “hey, that song above? Listen…
Haru Nemuri — responsible for our favorite album of 2018 — recently wrapped up a tour of China. While there, she met up with Chinese instrumental rock band Prune Deer to collaborate on a song called “Return.” The group provides an initially lumbering backdrop, a sort of post-rock adjacent lurch that Nemuri hasn’t really tackled…
A friend and I had a long talk today about what’s going on in indie Japanese music…well, and J-pop…and came to the conclusion things are pretty strange. Mainstream artists are letting all sorts of ideas into their songs, and the underground seems just as much all over the place. Yet one place we agreed was…
Presenting Good On The Dancefloor’s star player, mostly because this band comes close to fulfilling the collective’s name. White Scooper join in the enjoyable trend of “bands making ’80s sounding music but not in a cheap nostalgic way” (led by Cut Copy, and featuring acts like Awesome New Republic and Delorean), pumping out new wave…
Canopies And Drapes’ music usually conceals an uneasy edge. Even when the tracks are twinkling dreamscapes (“Sleeping Under The Bed”) or minimalist constructions (“The Door Into Summer”), she finds a way to sneak in touches of something more sinister (the lyrics on the prior, the skeletal frame coupled with her vocal delivery). “Marmalade Sun,” from…