New Molice Video: “Into You”
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Creepy black and white! Weird images! Random words flashing on screen! Plus explosions! See it above in the new Molice video.
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Creepy black and white! Weird images! Random words flashing on screen! Plus explosions! See it above in the new Molice video.
Two of Japan’s finest juke makers dropped new albums during the same week — and that’s not even counting both of their contributions to Atomic Bomb Compilation Vol. 4, which they both played a big role in making happen. First up is Hiroshima’s CRZKNY, who follows up his politically charged contributions to that comp with…
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In an effort to reflect the dominant trends in Japanese indie music, we chose Osaka indie-pop outfit Wallflower to appear in the May 2012 edition of the Music Alliance Pact. There “Cure Your Heart” is one of the peppiest songs with twee DNA to pop out of the country this year…and there have been many….
Shiga-based producer Mecanika loves to explore the texture of noise, which makes “Explorer” an apt mission statement. It’s a rumbling number, one that finds an artist who was always pushing towards maximalism committing, loading the brief song up with whirring synthesizer notes and brighter keyboard notes in the mold of post-Nakata electro-pop. Yet instead of…
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Take cues from your idols long enough and you might just outlive them and sound unique all your own. Kyoto’s New House have made no secret that a lot of their sonic cues come from American outfit Animal Collective, and their sophomore album Kaleidoscopic Anima continues to find the outfit exploring the campfire-side, howling, semi-psychedelic…