Let’s be clear here — this blog’s name comes from a Lullatone song, so a super-stuffed release that finds the duo re-arranging old songs for piano, including said titular song, is bound to get us thrilled. I had the chance to talk to them in Nagoya recently, and that features a lot of thoughts on…
Every week in 2016, pajama-pop duo Lullatone shared a new song that fit in wonderfully in the group’s universe. Which is to say, they zoomed in on the everyday and seemingly tiny details of life, with song titles running from “How Frost Grows” to “Returning Overdue Library Books.” This has always been Lullatone’s focus, and…
Tokyo got its first snowfall of the year today, and you best believe I haven’t stepped out of my apartment once today. Instead of braving several centimeters of snow on the ground — this has thrown the Tokyo train system into chaos — I’m going to catch up on some good electronic music that came…
Nagoya’s Lullatone have recently started a new project…well, more like they’ve begun playing around in their studio and creating tracks that don’t sound like what you’d expect from the duo, they write on SoundCloud. Tagged as “Leisure & Research,” the pair of songs to emerge from this experimentation are both really really laid back, numbers…
And so, Nagoya duo Lullatone’s seasonal exploration comes to a close with The Sounds Of Spring. Lullatone have always been good at memorializing the small details of life, drawing out sweet emotion from the sort of things that often get ignored (while also not going overboard about it — when they made a song about…