Stream Madegg’s New Now
One of the Japanese albums we were most looking forward to this fall is streaming over at Red Bull Music. Kyoto producer Madegg’s clanging New is up, and you can listen over here.
One of the Japanese albums we were most looking forward to this fall is streaming over at Red Bull Music. Kyoto producer Madegg’s clanging New is up, and you can listen over here.
Broken Haze’s chop-shop bass continues to reveal new layers to itself. The producer’s newest release, the VTEC EP, explores similar right-off-the-production-line sounds as previous releases via the BetaPack collective — opener “NSX” features drill sounds among other garage details, rounded out by tight bass notes and party-starting percussion. Despite the sleek, chrome exterior, Broken Haze…
The words in questions…”indie” and “pop,” joined together by a hyphen. Though I love the jangly sound immensely – click the “twee as fuck” tag to see just how much – attempting to write about it can be a challenge because a lot of “twee” songs sounds alike. The Caraway’s “Bedroom Suburb” features all the…
Well here’s an exciting collaboration: Tokyo’s LLLL will release their proper full-length album through Zoom Len’s, the American label co-run by Meishi Smile and responsible for releasing music by the likes of i-fls, Yoshino Yoshikawa and more. The album, Paradice, can actually be heard in its entirety right now here, but I’ll hold off on…
As evidenced by all the twee music I celebrate on this blog, I’m not really a punk. I like plenty of “punk” music, but the kids wearing torn jeans always intimidated me in junior high. Which might be why the definition of “punk” has always seemed a bit elusive to me. Though I think a…
Despite this blog resorting to “sunny” as an adjective for guitar-guided indie-pop over the last…how many years…the stuff is just as potent on overcast days where it feels like rain is about to come pouring down at any second. Ancient Youth Club’s “Milk” works especially well in this grey context, partially because of the fuzzy…
What’s always made Taquwami’s music stand out from the crowd of similarly minded — and in most cases, very good — SoundCloud-orbiting producers is how he seemingly wants his music to sound genuinely alien. Most artists that could be generally tagged as “SoundCloud producers” come off as types who just like bending sounds, stretching vocal…