New month means a new installment of LLLL’s “Chains” series, and we’ve reached the time for an EP. Which, in one writer’s humble opinion, is a welcome arrival after a busy five days. Chains “Phase 2: Remain” moves in a more meditative direction than the Phase 1 EP, the songs here featuring guest vocalist Yeule…
The obvious hook is…here is LLLL, with the latest number in his “Chains” series, “Hollow.” Yet the deeper point of interest? After a stretch featuring a wide array of vocalists from Japan and abroad, the project returns to the voice that graced the earliest LLLL releases. It’s a nice, familiar feeling, but critically not a…
Artist collective / moving party Dos・Ing is back with a new compilation, gathering new songs from the producers orbiting them. It revolves around a loose techno-orientalist theme of sorts, the songs fixated on technology and “futuristic” topics while often placing them in a Japanese zone — which makes sense, given that this is a Tokyo-centered…
The latest song in LLLL’s year-long “Chain” project is here, featuring Yeule on vocals once again, albeit this time coming through more clearly than in the very first installment of the series. On “Memories,” the song moves at a bounce, with Yeule’s voice coming through clearly, becoming the central element of the song. It’s the…
Two of the three songs comprising Chains “Phase 1: Resent” have appeared over the last two months, one at a time. This advances Tokyo artist LLLL’s Chains project forward with the first EP in the series. We won’t dwell too much on “Dance & Kill” and “Loaded Gun,” a pair of songs we’ve written about….