NITES seems to be hitting his stride. His last new song, “Carcass Of The Sun,” marked a huge turning point for the bedroom recorder – a bright-light sheen replacing his once lonely recordings, the song eventually erupting into something that sounded like NITES trying to blow up the Earth. New track “It Is An Excuse…
“Carcass Of The Sun” marks a big turning point for Tokyo bedroom mysterian NITES. His previous releases have always been intriguing and highly listenable, but you also wouldn’t be faulted for sometimes feeling like all those songs sorta blend together, forming a lo-fi muck screaming “buy a better microphone.” With this, his latest offering, NITES…
NITES either really really likes “It’s Twinkle” or he thinks it could use some reworking…spoiler alert, I’m pretty sure it’s option one. Dude went and made two remixes of Hotel Mexico’s breakthrough track and posted them at his MySpace. Version one morphs the song into a wide-eyed piece of bedroom pop, NITES strong suite. Version…
I’ll admit right up front, I love bedroom music. Something about people, often in solitude, crafting achingly pretty music just gets me somehow. It’s why we post about She Talks Silence so much (still trying to find that debut album!) and it’s why I write about Tokyo’s NITES. Deliberately vague in description, NITES blanket-warm atmosphere…