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….
Sleep Well is a fragile collection, the sort of song cycle built on small details from seemingly uneventful occurrences (“Raincoat,” “Morning Clouds,” “Sunday”) but finding beauty in it all regardless of how insignificant it seems. This is how There Is A Fox, based in Kyoto and one of the minds behind Dear Ear Records out…
At its core, Tomisaki’s City 166 is a great house album, delivering three high-energy tracks full of warm piano lines and vocal samples. It’s a good time, fun release! But the reason to put it under the spotlight a bit more is because of the moments when the songs on City 166 get blurry. See…
We are officially back from break and, if like us, you remain in a New Year’s Eve induced stupor you probably don’t want to be confronted with walls of noise. The mid-day nap indie-pop of Twelve Fluffy Chair might be just what you need after you roll out of bed at one in the afternoon….
Artist collective / moving party Dos・Ing is back with a new compilation, gathering new songs from the producers orbiting them. It revolves around a loose techno-orientalist theme of sorts, the songs fixated on technology and “futuristic” topics while often placing them in a Japanese zone — which makes sense, given that this is a Tokyo-centered…
Sebastian X have always been about wearing emotions on their sleeves, and not just little splashes of it either. Last year’s Bokura No Fantasy (fun fact: this blog’s unlucky #26 album of the year) featured tracks seeping out feeling, like someone took a stick of lipstick and drew a portrait on your cuffs. This year’s…
True to form, Kobe’s tofubeats celebrated October 2nd (aka “Tofu Day” in Japan) by sharing a new song dubbed “Callin.” For folks craving the mode he primarily operated in before jumping up to the majors, this is a lovely throwback…though fans of his recent work (cough, like me, cough) still will too. No guests, just…