20. Kido Yoji Call A Romance On his debut release, Kido Yoji makes dance music for people who like spending significant amounts of time staring out on bright0lit cityscapes. Call A Romance certainly moves – check the easy-breezy disco shake of the title track, or the irresistible pop of “Hot And Cold” – but beneath…
30. Michiyo Honda “Paradise Lost” J-Pop remains an easy punching bag in 2011 because most of the criticism lobbed at Japanese mainstream music ring true. A large chunk of acts crowding the upper reaches of the Oricon chart are 90’s holdovers with appropriately bland tunes. Labels seem to be in an arms race to see…
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…
She Talks Silence releases the follow-up EP to last year’s excellent Noise & Novels, Some Small Gifts, tomorrow, but starting right now you can hear a new song. She’s released a video for the track “Vanished Vacances” which you can watch below. STS still has got it…”it” hear being catchy music obscured by the decision…
About one year ago, the mysterious lo-fi artist She Talks Silence released her debut album Noise & Novels, a monochromatic sonic snapshot of solitude that ended up being our favorite record of 2010. Needless to say, we now wait anxiously giddy like kids on December 20 for the arrival of her follow-up, the six-track Some…