New Polysics: “Let’s Dabadaba”
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Watch it above.
Toyomu (or TOYOMU, probably should make a style guide for this blog) has been having himself quite a busy year. Souda, Kyoto is his fourth release of 2016, and that’s on top of live shows as far West as Tokyo (and not to mention that media attention). If each work of his has had a…
Here’s a nice late-summer surprise – Elen Never Sleeps and Super VHS have teamed up to release a new split EP, each artist contributing one new track. Neither of the songs on the White Surrender/Stuck On You release mark big stylistic changes for either act, but both find the pair of Tokyo artists taking baby…
Sometimes, the most unexpected things conjure up pathos. Producer Athena’s latest features a pounding beat and a mid-song excursion featuring samples from anime, yet rather than be high-energy netlabel filler, Athena wraps it in a series of wispy synthesizer lines, giving “Cry More Cry” a melancholic vibe. It exists on the same plane as Shortcake…
There is a moment on the song “Joints” from beatmaker YAGI’s new EP Flowers in which he coolly admits his major source of inspiration. Relatively early into the song – and only for a second or two, and only once at that – you can hear the same siren sample the late J. Dilla used…
Your Gold, My Pink have some real stones on them. They’ve named their debut full-length album…out next Wednesday…Teenage Riot, which also happens to be the title of one of the best rock songs ever recorded (in my humble opinion). Not content to stare down Sonic Youth, the album’s first single is called “Virgin Suicides,” which…
Considering that end-of-the-year content starts appearing in late November now, it seems like now might be an OK time to start sorta thinking back on 2014…despite the fact that 1. this blog’s top two picks for an album of the year list came out this month and 2. Homecomings still have a release out on…