We’ve long been fans of the folk-leaning whispers of Predawn, and her stock has slowly but surely risen in recent years. Her latest album came out this September, and “Universal Mind” was the first taste of it. A bit has changed — the simplistic, bare-bones structure of her earlier works have been beefed up a…
Remember that one month I had a “things we missed post?” And said I’d do that every month? Good times, please move forward. If I had managed to keep that going, Rayons September release The World Left Behind certainly would have made an appearance. Rayons is a project helmed by one (semi mysterious) woman composer,…
Predawn’s music has always been ace at capturing the smallest details of life – on her last EP, she captured the span of seconds where relationships bloom and wither excellently – and new song “Keep Silence” does it again. It’s about a pretty common experience, waiting for someone to call you back on the phone…
Today in The Japan Times, you can check out a story I wrote about Turntable Films, Predawn and a host of other exciting folk-leaning artists in Japan today. I’ll let the article do the talking. Since we are here, let me give a rapid-fire review of Yellow Yesterday, Turntable Film’s proper debut album. It’s really…
Predawn’s always sounded intimate, the folk-leaning songs on her Ten Minutes With Predawn EP and her 2010 longplayer A Bird In The Hand coming off like personal journal scribblings. Yet even on those sparse and confessional tracks, the Tokyo artists never sounded particularly fragile – even on the downtrodden “What Does It Mean?” she kept…