It has been a busy last few days around these parts, not helped by me finally downloading a certain wonderful cat game, and this blog has fallen behind a bit. That’s no good! Here is a catch-up post of a few notable releases from this week. – Tokyo’s LLLL posted the free-to-download “Times Can Be…
Tokyo outfit LLLL’s newest album, Faithful, just officially came out, and you should certainly hunt it down. To give you another preview of it — one featuring the project’s original singer rather than a guest making a fantastic turn — LLLL released a video for second song “Blue,” which you can watch above. The song…
We wrote about this song a bit before, about how it finds two Tokyo artists who often operate in the shadows coming together to make something hopeful in the face of the crushing realities of urban life. Fittingly, the new video for it is a time-lapse clip of Japan’s capital, gone trippy at times but…
Welp, this Spring just keeps getting loaded with promising releases. The meeting between LLLL and Metoronori is something that seems natural — both are Tokyo artists who create woozy…and sometimes dark…music shaped by the metropolis. And both injected moments of joyful escape into their music, lining even the most shadowy moments with hope. And so…
1. Overall, I love what Maltine Records has been doing/continues to does, but the only thing that makes me bite my lip is these special sites they make for big releases, such as this collaboration with Amagawa Uchu. Mainly because it destroys my computer every time…a large part of that is, despite being a (*air…