Tokyo outfit LLLL’s newest album, Faithful, just officially came out, and you should certainly hunt it down. To give you another preview of it — one featuring the project’s original singer rather than a guest making a fantastic turn — LLLL released a video for second song “Blue,” which you can watch above. The song itself is more immediate than first taste “Only To Silence,” a good example of how the shadowy unit takes the immediacy of J-pop and takes it to an uneasier place.
Excuses are boring, but I’ve had a really fucked up elbow issue over the last couple of days, so no posts. Still hurts a lot, but here’s a post fighting through the pain. Hokkaido’s Qrion just released a new EP — well, more like a small physical release gathering various songs she’s released before in…
Let’s start with the original version of “TEI” – アナ made an enjoyable bit of indie-pop bolstered by a few theatrical touches – see, that gong and those guitars and maybe just that general glow of “bigness” pulsing underneath the whole track. It also has a bit of a leg-moving feel thanks to the drum…
Kosmo Kat has proven he doesn’t need to have guests on his tracks to make them shine — the majority of the numbers on his very good Square EP find him providing the vocals — but he also tends to produce some really lovely work when he does team up with new people. “Ere Sora,”…
Producer Bruno Uesugi recently spent significant time in the hospital for intensive care. Uesugi appears to be doing a bit better, and he just released a two-song set titled Deep Space. The opener kicks things off and reminds of what separated Uesugi from other high-energy producers operating around the greater Tokyo area —- “Galactic Disco…
Bedroom-whizz Shugo Tokumaru has released his first glimpse of the follow-up to 2010’s Port Entropy in the form of new single “Decorate.” For those expecting his whimsical, toy-instrument heavy music to morph into something new by now, prepare to be let down because “Decorate” is another solid example of his playroom pop. Tokumaru’s usual assortment…
“In all honesty, its about time the rock kids got their forward-looking tear-it-up moment: the indie world of the past decade has been far too content to strum its way comfortably along, going nowhere. But one side deserves the other, and there’s every chance that during the next few years we’ll need more of that…