先週東京のデュオ、She talks Silenceが新曲”Walk Away”をSoundCloudで発表しました。Minami Yamaguchiは短いイントロの中で”walk away now”の持つ意味を明確にし、そこから速いテンポで短い３分間程度ギターをかき鳴らしていきます。”I know you’ll hate me”という印象的なフレーズが象徴するように、後ろを振り向かずに前へ前へと進みたい気持ちと共に疾走する美しい曲です。試聴は以下から。
I’ve already written a bit about one of the three new songs to appear on Osaka idol group Especia’s latest single, and now you can hear all three songs over at SoundCloud. Let’s focus on the pair I haven’t had a chance to virtually blab about yet. The titular track, “Ya Me Te,” is a…
Late last week, we wrote about how Osaka’s Talking City 1994 had a new song called “Shine” available on their SoundCloud page. Turns out “Shine” was a preview of a new EP the off-kilter released over the weekend, called Roll Dance She Take. It’s only three songs long, but the tracks here do show the…
Talking City 1994 are one of those outfits that is constantly releasing new music, uploading new songs to SoundCloud at a very fast clip and forcing anyone interested in them to always be on their toes. It can oftentimes feel like they are just spitting songs out into the online void, without much cohesion. Plenty…
Producer Dubb Parade was, just one month ago, a lot sunnier. He billed his Your Emotion collection as “chillwave” and, even if it wasn’t totally locked to that Internet-genre, it carried a hazy, disco-influenced vibe that sounded more suitable for a blissed-out (remember that one?) summer spent indoors. Whether intentionally pushing himself to release music…
東京のデュオ、LLLLの楽曲には良い意味で不穏な空気感が漂っています。セルフ・タイトルのデビューアルバムも、続くシングル”Spider Web/Drafting Still“も、何かが陰に潜んでいるようなスリルを感じさせてくれます。今月リリースされたデュオの最長作品、”Mirror”というミニアルバムでは、目の回るようなサウンドがさらに強調されていて、それでいて今までの作品よりもポップさが増しています。一曲目の”Oddness”のイントロでフィーチャーされているシンセからすでにホラー・映画のような雰囲気が感じられ、後に出てくる音色も、スピード感に変化を与えていたり、曲に深みを足しています。色気のあるボーカルも上手く抜けていますし、曲をキャッチーで聴きやすい物にしています。 次の曲、”I Wish You”は、ボーカルの処理の仕方や、それに絡むダンス・ビート等、構成がスウェーデンのザ・ナイフを彷彿とさせています。このグループもエレクトロ・ポップをダークな新しい物にしているので、共通点が多く見受けられます。”Mirror”に収録されている他の曲も、安定してポップかつキャッチーで、それに加えられたダークさがLLLLの最大の武器かつ個性で、作品に深みを与えています。 Mirror by LLLL
Kindan No Tasuketsu has a new album out this month, and although our interest was peaked from the announcement alone, it is now even higher thanks to “Tonight, Tonight.” Nothing at all like The Smashing Pumpkins’ song, this is a throbbing bit of electro-pop, unreletning save for a very very brief break late in the…
Last week, Tokyo duo She Talks Silence posted a new song called “Walk Away” to their SoundCloud. It’s more like a gallop – after a minimal intro where Minami Yamaguchi sets the scene and makes her intention to “walk away now” clear, STS launches into a fast-paced guitar passage that lasts for the majority of the song’s just-over-three-minute playtime. “I know you’ll hate me,” Yamaguchi sings at one point, and from there “Walk Away” sounds like a dash forward, one that refuses to look back towards whatever it is it wants to avoid. Listen below.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AztSMDU9s5Q”] Lot of news coming out of the Pop-Office, uh, office at the moment. They recently posted a new song called “You Found Me (Primitive Version)” (maybe that means, like, a demo?), which is sorta a change-up from this Nagoya group. Up until now I’ve associated them with bleak, 80’s rock packed tight with a…
One of the big drawbacks of my recent hiatus from blogging was missing out on Omoide Label’s latest crop of releases. Surprise — the netlabel kept on hitting their stride, with joyful squiggle outs followed by madcap dance and then stuffed-tight compilations. The Indigo EP serves as a good point to jump back in, though,…
Cairophenomenons have always let their music unfold at their own strolling pace, but “In The Pye” slows things down in a whole new way. Everything starts normal enough, as the band plays a nice mid-tempo number featuring some conflicted lyrics hinting at a lot of worry and confusion. “What I want to say is…” goes…
Kobe’s Radicalfashion has been kicking around for over a decade, releasing primarily piano-focused numbers on the sparse but intricate side. Singing popped up at times, though often in a warped way that added an out-of-space element to Radicalfashion’s work. “Way Home,” however, offers something a touch more straightforward. Japanese artist Tony Chanty guests, singing over…
– Lost in the shuffle of the New Year, Osaka’s And Vice Versa released a new EP via Kiniro Tapes. The founding member of INNIT made a hypnotic set of dust-covered techno, as tracks such as “Magnet” peel like paint at places but still end up morphing into engaging numbers (And Vice Versa gets downright…
Back in April, I bought an EP from indie-pop outfit BOYISH. Inside the flimsy packaging was a little comic that explained the band’s origins – to sum it up, albeit without the cuteness of the actual doodling, the members of BOYISH saw a band called Teen Runnings (who we love) and it inspired them to…