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.
Kudo Kamome’s voice can turn even a jaunty tune into something concealing some unease. Her two 2018 releases wowed in how they shifted pop onto its side, taking the experimental energy of Japanese underground communities and seeing how that might sound against more accessible sounds. Almost a year since Apple Sleep, her voice plays a…
“Demo” is a bit of a frightening word, because one fears that the music they are hearing isn’t a finished product, but just a sketch bound to be erased and reconstructed multiple times down the line. Why not just wait for the final product? Osaka singer-songwriter Kaori Motoi’s first release, Home Sick, comes with that…
Boogie Idol sits across the way from Pasocom Music Club when it comes to Japanese artists finding interesting new ways to play with the sounds of the past. And if this year’s Park City showed how music from a bygone era (and, like, malls) could be refashioned into something new, Boogie Idol’s latest Ongaku Yori…
It seems a bit ridiculous to use a post about a song as feather-bed-soft as Naola’s “Fufu” as a diary entry…but hey, I’m paying the hosting fees, so why not. My life is pretty good on a lot of levels, but geez has 2015 left me tired. In the most literal sense — I spend…
First, I was working on something that talk a bit about the year the acts associated with INNIT have been having this year, and hopefully that will pop up later this week. So apologies if this isn’t as hyperbolic as it could be. That said…oh man listen to this. In advance of their July 1st…
Sunday afternoon seems like the optimal time to share a new song from Tokyo indie-pop outfit Boyish…”Sketchbook” is an unhurried number from a group usually operating at a far skipper pace. What it lacks in urgency it makes up for in nailing a certain type of fuzzy sound. “Sketchbook” could ultimately shave off a minute…