Initially released as a bonus track on Singapore-based artist Et Aliae’s Rose EP from earlier this year, “Feel Me” found dream-pop creator Cuushe team up with Et Aliae for a piano-guided rumbler full of emotional dips and peaks. Now the song is being shared as a standalone, so those who don’t hang around Tower Recrods…
It’s only a snippet of a new song, but any new Cuushe is something to celebrate. In conjunction with the NHK program Techne and director Yoko Kuno (who has worked with Cuushe before), “Spread” soundtracks a brief clip of rotoscoped babies, albeit ones transforming into various things (we approve!). The song itself is a twinkling…
Cuushe has been hopping around the world over the last few years, capped off recently by an appearance at the five-year anniversary party for the label Cascine. She made time to guest on the song “Gold Coat,” by the just-signed-to-Brainfeeder artist Iglooghost, and the song will appear on the producer’s forthcoming Chinese Nü Yr album….
Two new videos for two of 2015’s better songs from Japanese artists. Above, you can watch the colorful, hypnotic clip for Cuushe’s “Tie.” Meanwhile, Noah’s “Flaw,” which came out yesterday, got a music video too, directed by Takafumi Tsuchiya (who has worked with Perfume). Watch it here.
This blog has been singing the praises of Cuushe for a while…whether in her solo state or working under the Neon Cloud name…so you probably don’t need more sentences here gushing about one of Japan’s best dream-pop makers going (hmmmm, lot of praise in that sentence, already too late). Well, here’s a reminder that her…