This bubbly beat comes courtesy of Tokyo’s Yuichi Nagao, and it is a nice bleep-blooper full of bouncy details (the way those synths intersect with one another! how hopeful this sounds!) and just a fun little groover. Listen below.
The ever shape-shifting Dubb Parade has returned with a new song called “Urge.” It isn’t the producers first foray into juke music, but it is definitely his most clanging to date, as manipulated voices crash against both headphone channels, and in general the beat clangs more than previous efforts. It slightly disorienting, but focused enough…
When you read this, I will probably be in an airplane heading back to Japan. Thus, posts are still gonna’ be a little sporadic. Anyway, here is a new one from Madegg called “Float Ring.” Listen below! [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/40078813″ iframe=”true” /]
Two months ago, in a post about new outfit Jolie Joli, I wrote how 2012’s big online boom in indie-pop seemed to skew towards the dudes, with the majority of bands putting out music in this scenes were made up of all men. As October comes to a close, though, a slew of new women-centric…
Every recording done by Pastel Blue available here features the words “homerec demo” squeezed into parenthesis at the end of the title. Though this initially would seem to indicate the group’s financial situation above all else, it serves as a good way to describe the Osaka band’s overall sound. This is immensely dreamy stuff, blanketed…
Boris are back with a new album this June, called (appropriately enough) Noise. Well, here’s the world’s first taste of it with “Quicksilver.” It’s a driving number with some nice touches…like the screaming that’s just lurking a little lower in the mix. And it goes for just over seven minutes. Listen below.
Given how common this beach-adjacent sound has become in recent years, it is…weird (?) hearing Before I Go and being transported back to the first half of the decade. This is basically a Teen Runnings album, maybe a little less fuzzy (well, save for inclusions like “Unconsciousness” which go big on feedback) around the edges…