At last, the latest installment in what has been the most intriguing body of work in Japanese music this year. It’s tough pinpointing what exactly bedroom producer i-fls does that has made the various free albums and EPs he’s released this year resonate so much. Part of it is how he’s able to use the…
Notes on Windoswill Of Persception, i-fls’ new album out on Niphlex that you should obviously download right away: – Suburban life/childhood/adolescence is often remembered as a simple time in one’s life, relatively carefree days (at least in comparison to adulthood) that has in 2013 become nostalgia, Buzzfeed list after Buzzfeed list of “remember when?” Yet…
Sweet, another opportunity to tell you to go get your hands on spazzkid’s Desire, which might very well be my favorite non-Japanese album of 2013 so far. OK, got that out of the way…one of Tokyo’s most intriguing home-based producers i-fls has gone and made an unofficial remix of spazzkid’s “Getting To Know You,” transporting…
Too much good music has popped up online over the last few days…better round it all up, fast. – The ever-productive i-fls has a new album out soon, but for now enjoy a song that won’t be on his latest full-length, the “Tanabata greeting track” “You Made A Constellation.” It shimmers and whirs, i-fls capturing…
The titles of i-fls’ albums always seem like clues to what’s going on, but strangely enough his latest throws me for a loop. It has a title within a title – he is referring to a cassette named “Awareness To The Winter,” although I have no idea what that really means. Actual relic of the…