If this is what prison sounds like, sign me up! (Note, don’t sign me up) Michiyo Honda steps away from the dance-centric side she’s been exploring on her last few monthly singles, this time opting for feather-floaty easy-breeziness. Honda constructs an aural hammock using electro-bleeps alongside some keyboard, her voice pitched to be just as…
I’m not sure what one is supposed to watch out for in regards to electronica considering the vague genre has been around for decades and has morphed into like a bazillion sub-genres (folktronica? Remember that?). Still, it’s the subject the ever-ambitious Michiyo Honda tackles in her latest installment of the 2011 monthly singles project and…
Tough to call any song Michiyo Honda puts out in 2011 ambitious when she’s already got that adjective ticked off by deciding to release a single a month this year. Yet latest offering “Wasurenai” turns out to be, well, just that. Whereas all of her other songs in the past seven months have clocked in…
Michiyo Honda’s “single a month” plan for 2011 marches on, this time triumphantly towards the Kansai region of Japan courtesy of “Chonmage Disco Goes West.” The title deceives a little bit – this isn’t particularly disco-ish, more like slightly funky electro-pop with some goofy retro synths added in. Though “Chonmage” does boast some cheesy stuff…
Michiyo Honda’s “Monthly Release Project” seems to be turning into an experiment in confusing meanings. Her previous release was the woozy “Your Voice,” a song that existed somewhere between consciousness and slumber. Now she introduces her latest clever treat, “GAME BOYZ (Don’t You Want A Real Girlfriend).” The title hints at what, ostensibly, is every…