Matra works as the bridge between Le Makeup’s two musical sides. The Osaka artist’s voice bounces off of the beats here, approaching a rap while adding an emotional urgency to every song here that really resonates when they let the edges of the songs fray a bit. “Fade” is right, Le Makeup guiding the song…
Le Makeup’s letting his voice get louder and louder. “Lush” is the latest track from the Osaka artist that finds them revisiting the skip of their early Bala-Club-esque experiments and adjusting it to their current one-day-at-a-time mindset. But the bigger development, as mentioned, is how clearer Le Makeup’s vocals are getting, here coming through clearer…
ATLAS by OXYORANGE Le Makeup contributed a new song to a compilation put together by the Berlin label Oxyorange. The whole comp is worth checking out, but the Osaka producer’s track for it offers a nice break from mostly thumpier material. “Couples” propels forward on guitar melodies, offering a nice pace but without ever really…
Le Makeup’s recent documentations of daily life haven’t put much of a priority on his voice. Despite aiming to capture the unnerving feeling of a world getting worse, the young Osaka artist has so far avoided using words to do the work for him, letting the music set the atmosphere and whatever syllables get come…
Le Makeup’s pivot from Bala-Club-indebted bangers to more reflective numbers came because of a renewed focus on everyday life, especially in times that often seem nigh apocalyptic. For the most part, Le Makeup has celebrated the small things and captured daily living, but sometime even that can push you towards some sort of reckoning. “Plea”…