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Towa Tei keeps things pretttttty simple here.
Turns out Avec Avec’s melted-crayon-explosion sound can also be turned into a smooth as butter groove. His new track “Love Amania,” released on Maltine Records, slides across the floor on the back of a breezy vocal sample and a well-placed bass drum that gives “Love Amania” enough of a push. Avec’s bright synths, usually the…
Maybe you’ve had a hectic week, or maybe you would like to sink away for a bit from boy-band media circuses and just zone out. The global-minded Onmyodo Cassette label’s newest compilation, Cyclical Return, couldn’t surface at a better time, as it compiles skeletal songs from artists hailing from all over the world — though…
Yoshimi doesn’t see Tokyo in a positive or negative light — the producer just hears the city beat. Atavism is the follow-up to last year’s pulverizing Tokyo Restricted Area, a set gazing back on the capital’s ancient past — and summoning traditional Japanese instruments and singing styles — while also placing it into its claustrophobic…
What’s made Paellas’ rise up the ranks over the last year so surprising is how the group’s songs are unrelentingly downcast. This decision to cloud the familiar funk and rock elements that have become trendy in recent years in a fog — a choice they’ve been making since their earliest indie-pop cuts, the group sounding…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09xVJJSOL4″] Geez, Hotel Mexico most really really have worn out their copy of Before Today because they’ve full-on embraced the Ariel Pink sound on the teaser for a new song above. The track, named “Dear Les Friends,” is “coming soon” but I can already guarantee you every one who writes about it will bust out…
I had to turn my apartment heater on for the first time Sunday evening, which means winter is probably still a month away for people with a normal tolerance to colder weather. Yet in preparation (and, well, for me now, I guess), producer MPEG_& (formerly known as Athena) has a new three-song album called Diamond…