New group Lucky Tapes – fronted by Kai Takahashi – have their debut EP out now, and here’s another taste of the laid-back group’s sound. “In Paris” is an especially Sunday-morning-in-bed-ready song, a slow groover of a number that adds sweet vocal dollops behind Takahashi’s love talk. Listen below.
Her consists of Unmo and Tsudio Studio, two artists who create on their own but come up with something a touch more interesting together. “Neon” in particular jumps off the SoundCloud timeline —- written and sung by Ummo and arranged by Studio, it’s a bouncy bit of dance-pop. The immediate sonic highlight are the vocal…
Gauging the political intentions of music in Japan can be tricky, especially when you rely on Google Translate and Firefox extensions to figure out what’s going on. Plenty of artists can be direct about their stances, and in the wake of this year’s nuclear situation a handful of anti-nuclear-power songs appeared albeit far from the…
The ellipses at the end of the title here tell you a lot. Kagoshima-based artist Ryoma Sakoh conjures up images of coastlines and easy-breezy days in the sun on “Island’s…” gentle glide, highlighted by bell chimes and piano notes. It’s at times relaxing and calming, tied together by Sakoh’s near-whispered vocals. Yet that barely-there voice…
Pasteur answer the great unasked question “what if Tortoise signed to Warp and really liked King Crimson?” with the song “Zahala Zzahala.” A cursory glance over the band’s influence list on MySpace initially hints to what the track could have ended up sounding like – either a math rock tinged in the vein of Battles…
Well, “new” in the sense that it is a different recording of an already existing For Tracy Hyde song. “Shady Lane Sherbet” originally appeared on the band’s 2012 debut EP Juniper And Lamplight, and was an early highlight among the group’s more straightforward indie-rock songs – “Sherbet” embraced dreaminess, bouncing ahead rather driving forward. All…
Call this one an uncomfortable chill. It has been a while since we’ve heard from Boys Age, but “Phantasm Gem” reminds that the project is still delivering one of the more off-kilter takes on chilled-out indie-realm sounds going. Their latest sashays along on a guitar melody close to the music you’d hear on Spongebob Squarepants,…