Sapphire Slows will release a new EP, The Role Of Purity, out at the end of March via Nous. Ahead of that, she’s shared “Speculation,” a skeletal bit of electronic music getting a lot of mileage out of space. She strings together “Speculation,” adding small parts as the song twinkles forward, a lot of the most intriguing details happening in the background, such as her voice rippling off and adding a haunting effect to the whole song. Listen above.
Duo Frasco’s music has always been relatively laid back, avoiding easy city-pop-revival trappings in favor of something a bit more out there (but still limber). So this group — which describe themselves as a “meta pop project?” I don’t remember that from last year, is this a commentary on…something? — creating a smoothed-out beat for…
Aya Gloomy’s initial foray into music after joining up with Tokyo’s Big Love Records was to create a buzzing, unsettling number that gave just enough room for her singing to come through clearly, even if the whole song felt like it was being sucked into a whirlpool. Now she has her proper debut album out…
Picnic Womenがやってくれました…いや、良い意味でね！彼の最新EP”II Women”のタイトルトラックは、その名の通り、とてもユーモアのあるジュークになっています。この曲ではMariah CareyとBoyz II Menの “One Sweet Day“が使われていて(特にBoyz II Men)、ピッチが下げたり上げたりされています。でも、この”II Women”はただ単に面白いトラックというだけでは無く、Picnic Womenならではの繊細さが光っています。バックで見え隠れするギターがその巧みなギミックのうちの１つで、そのような細かいディテールが、この少し茶目っ気のある曲を音楽としての完成度の高い作品へと変貌させています。更にこのEPは”African”という”II Women”の中だけでなく、Picnic Women史上で最速の曲も収録。Picnic Womenの素晴らしいジューク・コレクションはこちらからどうぞ！.
Last week, chilled-out group Super VHS dropped a new EP for free over at Bandcamp just waiting for you to click the “download” button. Girlfriends features two relatively relaxed tracks, both moving like a lazy Sunday afternoon and with a little fog slightly crowding the scene. The title track moves along slowly, the guitars gently…
Osaka’s Soleil Soleil has always been about creating dance music drenched in feelings, but he’s a bit more direct with new song “Emotion.” Like the cuts off of this year’s still-strong If I Could EP, he creates a bouncy beat centered around vocals sampled from Mariah Carey’s “Emotions,” zeroing in on the “you got me…
Voices have never really been central to the music Nagoya’s House Of Tapes has made. The focus has always been on the heavy, crushing electronics, a wall of sound acting like the trash-compacting walls from Star Wars. Words, however, have drifted into his work at times — but never like they do on the Magnolia…