#10 In The Blue Shirt Cyanotype And Sensation Of Blueness Across these two brief but busy releases, Osaka’s In The Blue Shirt transmogrified the familiar into alien forms. His approach to music remains the same — grab a line or a few from a song, whether it be an obscure cut or a global smash…
Ahhh, a day away from December which means many things…one of them being the futile catching up on albums that have zoomed by us (read: me), or giving works that seemed sort of forgettable in the first half of the year another shot (yesterday I tried listening to that Drake album…still really bad). Have A…
Virgin Babylon Records has had one of those banner years a label can only dream of, so it’s fitting that the guy running the whole operation gets in on it too. Katsuhiko Maeda’s World’s End Girlfriend project has a new album out — their first in six years — at the end of the month,…
Virgin Babylon Records has, in consecutive weeks, released two albums that have grabbed my attention and stand out as a pair of 2016’s best Japanese albums thus far. The first is anything but a surprise if you’ve read this blog for a while — Metoronori’s latest full-length is a disjointed, fizzling rabbit hole of an…
We all let our assumptions ruin us sometimes. My image of the band Have A Nice Day! revolves around that I swear they play most of their shows at Shinjuku Loft, a nice enough venue but one I mostly associate with “alternative” idols and rock bands who know how to put on a nutty live…