Look, I’m watching the second half of this Japan-Colombia World Cup game and it is stupid stressful, here is a new song from Osaka’s Soleil Soleil, it’s good. Back to sitting all scrunched up like seeing if Japan can score two goals….
Electronic artist Tominaga hasn’t avoided using her voice in previous releases, but Pain Is Mine features some of the most direct usage of it yet. Primarily, the first two songs. “A Song For Blue Witch” skitters to life, but mostly hangs in the air, allowing space for Tominaga’s stretched-out singing to take up the center…
Tokyo’s LLLL is prepping the next installment of the Chains series for a December release, and “For F” shows a continued commitment to the shadowy but ultimately hopeful sound that has defined the bulk of this project. The music here comes off as among the heaviest things LLLL has created as part of this series,…
淡く幻想的なFancy Booksのポップから暗闇で覆うようなThe Paellasのロックまで、東京のDead Funny Recordsの2012年は非常に強力でした。でもJappersのLately EPも是非聴いてみて下さいね。このグループのサウンドは溺れるようなFancy Booksのサウンドともファズの掛かったThe Paellasとも違い、クリアでもっとクラシックなロック／ポップを奏でています。”Settle Down”はとても有意義なリラックスタイム。シンプルな構成によってメインの部分が際立ち、曲の良さを効果的に引き出しています。タイトルトラックは”You Can’t Hurry Love”からの影響が感じられるものの、Jappersのヴォーカルはウイスキーを少量飲んだかのように若干荒々しいです。オリジナルの持つ軽快さは陰に潜みますが、それが彼等の個性であり良さなんです。
Taking us into the working week is this dreamy collaboration between long-running house producer Shinichiro Yokota and England-based (but formerly in Japan) Pleasure Cruiser. It’s a nice escape from the drudgery ahead, or at least that’s how I’m expecting all those electronic chirps and the gauze wrapping around the whole song to feel come the…
Released at the very start of the year, pop trio w-inds’ “We Don’t Need To Talk Anymore” beat most J-pop to the trop-house punch, leading to a (surprisingly solid!) full-length riffing on similar ideas. The song became a go-to for a lot of remixes from all corners of Japanese music, many of them good but…
Let’s not let little details like “the event this EP exists to promote happened several days ago” stop us from listening to a new set of minimalist juke tunes from Foodman. The 813 EP features some of his most bare-bones material in a few months, the producer making the most out of as little as…