On Reverse, there are moments where reality slips through Tokyo producer i-fls Garageband-constructed escape world. They don’t pop up all the time across his latest longplayer – the bulk of Reverse explores the same hazy suburban communities i-fls has been navigating for a while now, twinkling numbers like “Original Design” and throbbing “Consolation” hitting on…
One should always be hesitant of almost anything appearing on April 1…that is, after all, the day when everyone website around decides to have some lolz and wheel out some gags. Despite one song here being titled “April Fool Lover,” looks like i-fls has no goofy intent with the Betrayed Devotion EP. His music always…
I’ve become a city person, another individual scrambling from bed to train to work to cafe (to work more, wi-fi according) to maybe the gym to home where maybe I can watch TV and then sleep and do it again. It is a life with many rewards, but one of constant movement and little space…
Tokyo Garageband producer i-fls works best in album form, his faded memory jingles sounding best when they rub up against one another to create a well-rounded portrait of what youth, nostalgia and the suburbs feel like. Individual tracks usually sound perfectly fine, but their full impact is felt when they run together. “Ambiguous Reply” would…
You’d think after releasing ten albums/EPs in 2013, bedroom producer i-fls would take a break heading into 2014. Nope…he’s compiled two new albums to close out the year, both acting as sort of milestones for getting this far in his artistic life. Genealogy Of Regret/Falsify Tracks finds i-fls sharing reconfigured versions of songs he’s already…