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….
Here’s a nice late-summer surprise – Elen Never Sleeps and Super VHS have teamed up to release a new split EP, each artist contributing one new track. Neither of the songs on the White Surrender/Stuck On You release mark big stylistic changes for either act, but both find the pair of Tokyo artists taking baby…
A little Sunday night music for those still up…Tokyo’s Tenkiame (featuring Azusa Suga of For Tracy Hyde/Shortcake Collage Tape) shared a new demo called “Toutetsu to Hakudaku.” It might be the young project’s best balance of sounds yet — shoegaze/noise pop has been a consistent source of inspiration, but a very real fuzz hangs over…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGlZdOKE8Uo&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Despite having the stupidest title any song working as end credit music for a J-Drama could possibly have, Soutaiseiriron lead singer Etsuko Yakushimaru’s latest solo single sounds better than a large chunk of her main gigs latest album. Sure, “Venus To Jesus” sounds more or less like a Soutaiseiriron song (relatively minimal construction allowing…
I don’t know whether Rapunzel8083 pulled the vocal sample at the heart of “指の呪文” out of this clip or another recording of a song featuring the same name as her latest track, but wherever it comes from it ends up being one of the more attention-grabbing sounds I’ve heard in a Japanese song this year….
Fukuoka imprint Yesterday Once More’s latest comes from one of their most promising producers, Shigge. His SunLimeJuice EP is a rollicking four-song set, loaded with chopped-up vocals turned into dizzying sonic waterfalls and neck-wrecking beats, highlighted by the delirious “Fallin’.” It’s a great dance record that, thanks to Shigge’s love of sliced voices, takes on…
Playing with irony is a dangerous game…one wrong move, and suddenly what sounded like a good joke transforms into something legitimately off-putting. Idol-duo Vanilla Beans have always tip-toed on the edge just fine, their winking brand of J-Pop managing to deliver catchy tunes alongside the smirks. New single “Non Section,” though, comes close to tumbling…