Privacy-loving outfit Sotaisei Riron released a new album last week, Town Age, which I have a feeling will be landing on our top albums of 2013 list when that time comes. More on that later…but here is the new video for Town Age highlight “You & Idol.” Watch above.
Osaka’s INNIT parties, events held every few months where folks are invited to bring their own music and watch it get played, are still going strong, and have only gotten better as time goes on. This Sunday at Osaka’s Grand Cafe, they will host Ann Arbor’s Shigeto alongside regulars like Seiho, Magical Mistakes, And Vice…
Not quite time to break out the year-end accolade around these parts yet…getting closer…and that’s good, because producer Tomggg just released a new three-song album via Maltine Records. Despite only boasting a trio of new material, Tomggg overloads almost every second of these numbers with sounds. Each song is named after a Japanese fashion magazine…
It takes nearly two minutes for Japanese duo Ikebana’s “Rose” to really reach…somewhere. Before that, for all those seconds, the pair create a slowly unfolding iciness that sounds like it might never thaw out. Only when voices…unintelligible, virtually humming…enter into the scene do things start to warm. And even then, it still takes time. Eventually,…
In which Tokyo producer Kenie_T…who on SoundCloud now goes by knie with a block symbol between the “k” and “n”…realizes Vocaloid doesn’t have to be just a replacement singer. The productions released by this artist over the past few months have been warm and dizzying, yet it’s on “Papapa” in which the digi-voice of Sekka…
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…
A little over halfway through Annie The Clumsy’s Vol. 1 collection, the singer plays a lovely little number about being with a lover, a lover who just overwhelms our protagonist with presumed swagger. Then, the proverbial shank to our thighs – “everything you do/makes my uterus ache/not my heart but my uterus ache.” Everything about…