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.
Ya know what this here blog has been missing recently? Twee music. Happy, sappy twee music to make the coming Spring that much more sweet. Enter indie-poptastic duo Serani Poji. They make hoppy music begging to be used as the soundtrack to woodland creatures selling insurance. The group plans on releasing a new album at…
There comes a painful moment where you realize you are only getting older, and all the things that you love lost to time are not necessarily going to carry over to future listeners. For me, that has mostly centered around this period in Japanese indie music — let’s say 2011 to like 2013, maybe 2014…
For almost five minutes, Baby Loop Code puts most mainstream J-Pop idols to shame with “Secret (Piano Version.” With only a solitary piano backing her up, the Osaka artist tip-toes her voice around the key strokes. She swings from quiet-as-a-mouse to nearly bubbling over, her singing slowly rising towards some sort of emotional climax before…
A few days ago Second Royal Records posted all of the tracks to Friends’ debut album Let’s Get Together Again to SoundCloud. It will be released as a 10″ record in September in Japan, but can (and should!) be enjoyed right now. Needless to say, more on this one later.
Tokyo-based producer Rigly Chang last popped up on the split compilation between Fukuoka imprint Yesterday Once More and the capital’s Cosmopolyphonic (Chang reps for the latter), but he’s back a few days into 2016 with the glistening strut of “I Can’t Let U Down.” It flows forward via bass snaps and twinkling synth splashes, anchored…
In an effort not to be outdone by the absolutely dynamite Fuji Rock lineup, Summer Sonic have gone and added a couple noteworthy groups to their two-day festival. The biggest name…at least to me, and guess who is writing this?…is the recently reunited Death From Above 1979, who put out some great stuff in the…