Izumi Makura has come out of her room and into the daylight. The whisper-rapper started out barely rising above a breath and often sounded agoraphobic, OK to offer glimpses into her journal-rich world but without stepping too far out. Yet thanks to more opportunities — turns out, when people like your music, they want more…
Lovely Summer Chan makes her major label debut today, with the song “Fly Fly Fly.” Moving to a bigger company comes with some tricky baggage — check the video above, which transforms into a commercial midway through, straight from the Hoshino Gen playbook — but her music sounds unchanged, built on driving guitars and her…
That’s one clever way to promote your album — drop in the album digest in the middle of the whole song. Lovely Summer Chan, one of the busiest names in the Tokyo indie scene over the last three years, will release her first album through a major label this week. “Anata Wa Tobacco, Watashi Wa…
DIVINE HAMMER – 宇宙ネコ子とラブリーサマーちゃん from Abi Laurel on Vimeo. The run up to Uchu Nekoko’s new album continues, and now a new video for their song with Lovely Summer Chan “Divine Hammer” is out. The music itself reminds that they haven’t gone full laid-back, as “Divine Hammer” is a galloping shoegaze-leaning number made light by…
I’m not sure anyone can be truly nostalgic for a time that was about three years ago, but 2015 was the year I reminisced frequently about albums. Specifically, the commitment it took to go out and buy CDs back in the far-off time of 2010 (a point when physical releases remained the only way to…