Seiho posted this new song, “So Far,” yesterday, and it is definitely worth your time. It is the first track of his in a while not to feature some sort of mutated vocal sample – here, he just lets his electronics warp themselves around into a really colorful beat. Listen below.
Despite all the tags swirling around them — psych-rock, Burger Records, Saitama — Boys Age really excel at writing laid-back rock numbers designed for staring at clouds and maybe loafing about your living room. This is the mode where they can always fall back on and come up with something solid, always made a bit…
Four Disconnected Thoughts On “Future Pop,” The Song, By Perfume 1.) The hypothesis I’ve worked with over the last two years is — Yasutaka Nakata, after being way ahead of the curve in the late Aughts and influencing swaths of EDM and other corners of electronic music in the 2010s (I guess lo-fi house can’t…
Osaka’s The Paellas’ best releases this year have been able to strike a good balance between noise and silence. See the lovely side-swaying “Lights,” which found the group using vast amounts of space to build up tension for the big mid-song release, one of the better moments in Japanese indie rock this year. Now along…
Sapporo-based “kawaii J-pop” project Yunomi has been making some of the bubbliest but also hardest hitting electro-pop in Japan, loaded up with cuddly signifiers but boasting a bounce right out of Maltine (which, hey) all aided by the airy vocals of Nicamoq (from idol duo BPM15Q). Newest cut “Robotic Girl” hops forward on syllable slices…
Greeen Linez — featuring Tokyo-based artist Matt Lyne (head honcho at Diskotopia and recording solo as A Taut Line) teaming up with Chris Greenberg of Hong Kong In The 60s — have a new album out on the horizon, and in advance of that they’ve shared a new song called “Findings” via Boiler Room. It…
Japanese bedroom producer Ventla is one of the country’s most interesting indie artists going…and that feels like an understatement. He stated that his end goal is to release “100 recordings,” and that has mostly meant albums…and unlike most lofty chatter (looking at you, Sufjan Stevens), it doesn’t seem to be BS. Dude really has released…