I don’t share what I write for other sites much here anymore just because I already share them enough on Twitter and Tumblr…but this one is a little different, because I held out on writing about Qrion here in order to review it for The Japan Times. The Sapporo producer’s new Sink is a lovely, skeletal affair offering a glimpse at a strong new talent hailing from the north. Read the review here, or get the album here.
Here’s a new slice of lo-fi pop (listen to that tape hiss!) from Super VHS. “Remember The Night” inspires me to bust out one of the most dreaded words in music writing recently – nostalgic. The bedroom-recording techniques, the fact the vocals sort of ripple underneath the music and that the whole song reminds me…
Miii has set his focus on tension over the last few years. The Tokyo producer has long been a fan of bass-shredding, hard-hitting drops in his electronic music, and the thrill of a punishing plunge remains. Yet he’s been just as interested in pairing sounds not far removed from the dance pens of a big=time…
The actual musical content of Chatmonchy’s new song is pleasant enough – a bouncy bit of twee-leaning pop that would, in fact, work wonders at a seven-year-old kids’ birthday party. A fine little song, but the really gem of “Birthday Cake No Ue Wo Aruite Kaetta” is the silly video. In the clip, we learn…
Always worth interrupting a writing hiatus to mention that Tokyo’s i-fls has a new album out online. And this one takes on special meaning as it is the Garageband-leaning producers first full-length since the first half of 2014, which feels like quite the vacation for an artist who used to get new music out at…
Timothy Workが夏にリリースしたセルフタイトルのEPは、わずか４曲収録ながら幅広い音楽性を堪能する事ができます。そもそも、2012年に活躍したアーティスト達はジャンルの枠を飛び越える事が多かったですね。Moscow Clubもインディーポップからよりエレクトロなポップまでこなしていますし、Taquwamiの音楽性は常に変化しています。今回紹介するこのTimothy Work EPにはキャッチーな一貫したテーマ等は無いのですが、純粋に完成度の高い曲の集合体だと言えるでしょう。ミニマルなエレクトロ曲”London Echoes”に続くのは、My Bloody Valentineの”When You Sleep”のギターをよりやわらかくしたようなデリケートなインディーポップサウンドが特徴的な”Waves (You Heard)”。一筋縄にはいかないですね…と思ったとたんに次は色んな意味でエフェクトがかけられたラップが特徴的な”Hollywood!”が…最後の”Roll The Dice”は美しいコーラスとピアノが心地よく、オススメです。ダウンロードはこちらから。
This shouldn’t be so majestic – most of it is just the same beat repeating, and it lasts just over two minutes. It is, for the most part, not complex. But Rapunzel8083 hints at what’s coming from the start, how the beat and stray waves of synth are joined by trilling strings, which at first…