Well here’s an exciting collaboration: Tokyo’s LLLL will release their proper full-length album through Zoom Len’s, the American label co-run by Meishi Smile and responsible for releasing music by the likes of i-fls, Yoshino Yoshikawa and more. The album, Paradice, can actually be heard in its entirety right now here, but I’ll hold off on…
Here’s some great weekend listening – Tokyo’s LLLL are releasing a new three-song set on the label Modular Field, and you can listen to the whole thing now. LLLL work in mysterious ways…they pop up to release great music at intervals, and then vanish for some time only to creep out of the shadows once…
The new clip for Tokyo duo LLLL’s “Because Of My Eyes” captures what looks like a weekend night spent in Japan’s capital – lots of neon lights, dancing at clubs and a woozy effect that brings to mind walking around while sloshed. All of this, though, is shown in black and white, interspliced with shots…
A sense of unease has run through all of LLLL’s music up to this point, the pop-appropriate flourishes of the Tokyo duo’s self-titled debut and the follow-up “Spider Web/Drafting Still” single always undercut by a creeping sense of something lurking in the shadows. Mirror, LLLL’s longest release to date, also happens to be its most…
Tokyo’s LLLL make their music video debut with the above clip for “Drowned Fish,” from this year’s still-splendid debut EP. If you like bathtubs full of flower petals or jump rope…or really good music blurring the line between pop and experimental sounds…check it out.