Check out my review of Friends’ Let’s Get Together Again in today’s Japan Times. Read it here. Good album! Also, expect a a bit more about Friends later today…wish it was Friday so I could go for the alliteration but alas!
My original concept for this review of Cokiyu’s Your Thorn was to have my brain and my heart analyze the album from different perspective – my mind would tackle the literal description of the music in a scholarly style, while my heart tried to make sense of the emotions conjured up by this release. Despite…
This is the final installment of this feature, mostly as a way to get a few brief comments in about albums that could very well appear on our Top 30 albums of the year list (fast approaching, whoa!). Some of the below could even land pretty high up…. Kaela Kimura 8Eight8 Somehow, Kaela Kimura’s new…
Some Small Gifts came out back in the early days of summer, when temperatures rest at their most comfortable and ice cream seemed like a wise daily purchase post work. Now my walk home features leaves caught between yellow and red, and stops at convenience stores where they’ve already set up Christmas aisles next to…
Wrote a review for Canopies And Drapes’ debut EP Violet, Lilly, Rose, Daisy for the Japan Times. Check it out here. I’ve been hinting at how much I like this four-song collection for a while on, but now here is a summary of my thoughts on it. As mentioned in the review, CaD’s went and…