While the band aren’t quite dashing ahead at a “You Never Kiss” speed, Homecomings’ latest single “Cakes” finds them adding a little more skip in their step. The last few releases from the band have been good, but on the slower side. “Cakes” reminds that ennui can come across even when bouncing along. The song…
Homecomings’ Whale Living is a seaside stroll, the Kyoto outfit’s most reflective and generally laid-back album to date. Despite the tempo slowing down, the structure fits them well, seeing as they create short stories about everyday life and the often-melancholy emotions filling the time. “Hull Down” is a solid snapshot of the album as a…
Kyoto’s Homecomings have always sung in English prior to this year’s Whale Living, out next week. On that one, they switch it up to their native Japanese. Yet “Blue Hour” reminds that despite the linguistic change, the quartet remains capable of nailing the melancholy of everyday life. “Blue Hour” unfolds at a familiar Charlie-Brown-type shuffle,…
Kyoto’s Homecomings have found their corner of the music world, and they fit snuggly into it. “Songbirds” is their latest song, and it is a further Sharpie-underlining of what they do so well. No band in Japan captures suburban ennui —- a very Kyoto-born longing, a place that allows for the space and time to…
Kyoto’s Homecomings have excelled at turning the heartbreaks of daily life into big musical fireworks over their last two albums, and through two major-label releases have subtly expanded on this mid-tempo approach. There’s nothing wrong with an artist choosing to explore consistency over radical artistic swings, and for the most part you know what to…