Kindan No Tasuketsu are a band full of detours — they’ve explored boogie-assisted rap, tropical instrumentals and fragile acoustic ruminations — but I’d argue they are at their best with the big, bright-eyed songs mixing melancholy with excitement for what tomorrow might bring. Like “Tonight Tonight” before it, “Tomorrow World” is a nervous electro-pop number…
Busy times for Kindan No Tasuketsu — they added a new member and released a new song, titled “Beautiful Dreamer.” It’s a bouncy bit of blurred-around-the-edges pop, the group settling into a side-to-side rhythm that serves as an anchor, while letting everything around it smudge at time. Clocking in at just over four minutes, it…
Kindan No Tasuketsu’s music has always sounded like a secret little world, whether they were making splish-splashy folk numbers or dizzying pop numbers. Whatever mood they aim for, it tends to sound like it’s peaking out of a bedroom door frame, even at their most jubilant. “Himitsu No World” embraces that feeling fully, and finds…
Kindan No Tasuketsu operate in many different forms — fuzzy rock, groovier dance cuts — but I’m personally a huge fan of when they go in the direction they chose for new song “Kiss,” which is a slower, electronic-glazed number that oozes melancholy (see “Crazy“). Their latest isn’t quite as full of outright longing, but…
After embracing boogie-woogie grooves on their last song, Kindan No Tasuketsu have teamed up with artist Wata Megumi for another strut-worthy song. The backbone of “Romantic Hankagai” comes from a sample — or well-done-but-acknowledged replication — of Michael Wycoff’s “Looking Up To You” from 1982. From that, they play tag-team vocals to put their own…