sunshower 投稿者 Bored4Lyfe Kaela Kimura has a new single titled “Sun Shower” out October 24, and the video for the song is now online. Watch it above. The song moves away from the electronic, Sakanaction-inspired sounds of “Mamireru,” “Sun Shower” is built around strings and an appropriately skippy beat. It’s one of the more straightforward…
The top of the J-Pop world remains cemented in place so far in 2012 – the best selling albums and singles have been from all the usual suspects of the Japanese music landscape. AKB48, Ikimono-gakari, EXILE, everything Johnny’s…with a few exceptions, the dominant music of 2012 has been pretty much the same as the last…
I haven’t been sleeping much this week, so pardon me if this week’s Station To Station ends up being a bit briefer than others. It helps that I’ve written about some of these songs before. Gonna get at least…eight hours of sleep tonight! NYC “Haina!” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowDcaiDN0E”] Surprisingly, this new song from unloveable scamps NYC sounds…
Before last year’s 8Eight8, Kaela Kimura’s strength was absorbing popular sounds (ranging from Perfume’s techno-pop to whatever the fuck you call Mika’s music) and turning them into singles that managed to not be straight rip-offs, Kimura usually balanced on the right side of the fence. Yet then came 8Eight8, an album where Kimura certainly still…
10. The Mornings Save The Mornings The past year saw a lot of Japanese bands trying to fill one of two molds – some groups tried to capture youthful exuberance via a lot of yelping in an effort to be like early Los Campesinos!, while another batch tried fast-talking over math-ey guitar patterns like they…