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…
The glimpses Tokyo artist Metoronori gives into her world through her music is always fascinating — the string of albums she released last year were her finest collections of off-beat pop to date, each feeling like a door into a different dimension. Her latest song (above) is one of her more skeletal composition to date,…
Again, not my art, just clip art, bless it forever. 10. Emerald Four Nothing Can Hurt Me “Nothing can hurt me.” Imagine it as a mantra, a sentence muttered to build confidence in otherwise bleak moments. It’s easy to imagine those four words running through someone’s head while listening to Emerald Four’s album of the…
Uh oh, take a look at the calendar and brace yourself…2014 is almost over, and that means the barrage of year-end lists is imminent (the backlash against them has already started!). One of the Japanese artists who will be populating our hypothetical top-tens is Metronori, a Tokyo bedroom producer who made a huge leap forward…
It opens like so much that she has done before – some synths burbling off, Tokyo bedroom producer Metoronori sing-speaking, her voice overlapping with itself multiple times. A stray electronic wisp blows by, and a beat emerges. Eventually the song practically hisses, with even more sounds rising up in the background. This, the first track…