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….
Producer Ryuuta Takaki uploaded a new four-song collection earlier this week, and it is a great option if you are looking for a comedown. Fleeting Bloom is a very relaxed set, opening with the seagull-assisted “Blowing (Seat Of The Soul)” before moving into the hazy electro chiller “Gentle Breeze.” The title pretty much sets the…
Puni Puni Denki makes stylistic shifting look easy on Mirai Addiction. Released near the start of the month, this four-song collection marks a big jump forward for her, showing off her range and ability to hop-scotch over whatever her and guest arrangers come up with. It’s also another 2019 entry into the “kawaii-bass has mutated…
Blame the need for instant gratification that comes with easy access to MP3s, blame a culture of “what can you give me now” or blame Twitter. But when I first listened to Michio Ogawa’s “April Collector” I kept wondering “when is this song going to open up?” Where is the singing, the chorus, the big…
“Long Goodbye” is a simple one, but like a lot of the better indie-pop that comes out of Kansai, has an ability to really stick around in your head if you let it. Hayato Narahara (of the band Kanatato) creates an easygoing groove — one recalling the resort-side tempo of City Pop, though the recording…
Bedroom musician The Bed Town went away for a long stretch of time, but this summer he announced he was back with some new material (and a scattering of live shows). One of those fresh songs is “Kizuato,” a plinky-plonky number that offers a sparse backdrop for The Bed Town to sing over. His voice…
The biggest revelation on a sample of HNC’s new song “Gu-gli Gu-gli” – she doesn’t like Care Bears. Looks like someone never saw The Care Bears Movie, that was a tight film when I was five. Not caring about greeting card bears aside, “Gu-gli Gu-gli” finds HNC in the familiar mold of merging stupid-cute with…