New Metome: “Koala”
Look, I’m trying to finish a big project, but when Metome drops a new song, I’m at least going to make a quick post to say…Metome dropped a new song, go listen to it above.
Look, I’m trying to finish a big project, but when Metome drops a new song, I’m at least going to make a quick post to say…Metome dropped a new song, go listen to it above.
1. Sakanaction’s music-video game remains near the top level of contemporary Japanese music, goodness gracious the bubble-era beauty of this. 2. It isn’t like Sakanaction went anywhere, but 2015 felt more like a celebration of the band’s rise up the rungs of the Japanese rock scene than…well, a glimpse of whatever was next. Mainly, the…
Do you ever find yourself sitting in a coffee shop, just staring out the window at the neighborhood in front of you, kind of dazing off and ignoring all the stuff you really should be dealing with? Tokyo trio Baby Fire’s “Water” is an optimal soundtrack for just this, as it is an indie-pop number…
Last year’s New Way Of Lovin’ wowed us around here, but the basic formula to its success wasn’t all that complicated. Basically, Koutei Camera Girl Drei scooped up electronic styles often passed over by the idol world and mashed them all together. “Josephine,” the first preview of the trio’s forthcoming full-length release, follows in this…
Two sets of bleary eyed indie-pop weren’t enough for Fukuoka’s Happypills. The shoegaze-glazed project shared two new mini albums this month, both existing in some kind of state of rest. Lazy Sun, Late Risers sets the tone right away with the aptly chilled “Lazy Sun,” which finds Happypills using enough distortion to make the feeling…
Here’s the newest song from Tokyo’s Taquwami…who also records as Occult You. It might be a pain to write, but “τiмe Δf+er τiмe” mixes dreamy vocal samples against Aarabmuzik-like beats. Whereas the Occult You project seems a bit more outward focused, this Taquwami track and others like it wrap around you like a childhood Forever…
After sharing their “Heartbeat” earlier this year, nervy outfit Carpool have made their new four-song set CC available online. They are an outfit who work best when they are zooming ahead without any hesitation, which they do three out of four times here (alas, “The Best” is most certainly not). And the shorter they get,…