New music from Metoronori always offers a chance to dip away for a bit, sneak off into a cozy world and get your bearings back from the hum-drum of, well, the real world. Her latest two song set, via Virgin Babylon Records, continues the tour of her just-off world, one where tape runs backwards for…
Maybe you’ve had a hectic week, or maybe you would like to sink away for a bit from boy-band media circuses and just zone out. The global-minded Onmyodo Cassette label’s newest compilation, Cyclical Return, couldn’t surface at a better time, as it compiles skeletal songs from artists hailing from all over the world — though…
It wasn’t long ago that Metoronori shared a small slice of a song with the world, and now she’s back with a longer peek inside. “Jiku” adds orchestral flair to the usual wobbly world Metoronori conjures up, a dramatic string rise coming before the song truly gets jittery. It shows up later, too, to add…
Her appearance on LLLL’s “Only To Silence” revealed she’s capable of edging out of the shadows and soaring, but Metoronori still works wonders when operating in her own little muted world. Her latest song — clocking in at just over a minute and a half — serves as a reminder to this, as it is…
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…