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New HALLCA: “Burning In Blue”

ByPatrick St. Michel March 3, 2019

Charting the path the members of Especia went on after the group finally called it a day reveals that many…kind of kept on sounding like Especia. Well, except ripped from the idol context and playful vaporwave imagery that added an extra wink to music that was pretty faithful to city pop and the various styles…

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Haruka Tominaga, Formerly Of Especia, Is Now HALLCA, Shares “Milky Way”

ByPatrick St. Michel July 23, 2018

It would be a little silly to give Especia unearned influencer points for the state of Japanese pop music today…but the now-defunct group were way out ahead on the current city-pop-revival that has carved out space in the mainstream. And unlike a lot of the Tumblr-esque recycled moods of bands now scoring theme songs and…