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.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that The Hair Kid shared “Hikikomori,” a Nakata-tinged twister. Now, the Hyogo-based artist has released two new songs via Maltine Records — packaged with four remixes as Plastic Inbox — showing off his funkier side. It starts off with “My Love Is Online,” a dazzling bit of…
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This isn’t the first time non-sampled vocals have appeared on a Shortcake Collage Tape – but this is the first time the words have really drilled in. “Del Mar” finds Azusa Suga (also of For Tracy Hyde) sampling at least part of a song from last year’s Town Age album by Sotaisei Riron, submerging it…
Whereas most mash-up artists come off as dudes holding up old pictures screaming “remember this????,” Second Royal’s Halfby comes off as a dude who invited all your cool memories for a really sweet house party full of dancey tracks and Four-Loko-fueled hijinks. The Kyoto producer has a new album, Leaders Of The New School, out…
Nothing Very Vanilla Video do strikes as particularly strange. Electro-heavy rap featuring a few Mr-Toad-like turns into more traditional song and tinged with a bit of irony isn’t catching anyone off guard, not while Die Antword pull in Interscope dough. Yet every new song on their MySpace leaves me scratching my head…this shouldn’t be weird,…
As far as genres go, “poemcore” probably has more going for it than “Simpson’s Wave” or whatever YouTube trickery gets written up online, but don’t see any trend pieces being written up about it. Owtn., back after a brief hiatus, makes some of the more absorbing songs in this style — which, as the name…