What have been Rayons been up to for the last few years? The Flau-associated project responsible for some of the more aching string-heavy music to come from that label spent some time creating the soundtrack to an anime called Sagrada Reset. Considering my past accidental revelations that I know very little about anime, it shouldn’t…
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,…
No time for intros, let us get into this. AKB48 “Give Me Five!” WATCH A 34-MINUTE VIDEO HERE (OR SKIP TO 26:31 FOR THE SONG) At long last AKB48 have done what once seemed impossible – they have contributed something good to the music world. This “Give Me Five!” stands as the group’s best single…
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…