Summer going to be kind to us this year. All sorts of good music hits Japanese store shelves in the next few months, and here are a few new album alerts from some of our favorite artists. – Pop duo Sweet Vacation drop their second album into the world on July 14. You can preview…
It’s officially the weekend (at least on this side of the world) so I’ll keep this brief…Sweet Vacation have a new single out called “ラブカメラ~セカイが恋するメッセージ~” and it’s a fun little piece of bouncy retro J-Pop. With congas! It’s a nice Juicy Fruit piece of pop to carry you to next week. Here a little bit…
Using a covers album as a starting point for a group usually wouldn’t be a good idea, but in the Sweet Vacation’s case it might be the best. The duo (Daichi and May) produce a Euro-laced version of J-Pop that, well catchy, isn’t the most distinct sound around. Cover The Vacation, the group’s covers-only EP…
Nestled between some awkward electro-dance covers of “Sweet Child Of Mine” and “Walk This Way” (with a passing take on KT Tunstall) lies one of the most subversive cover songs I’ve heard from any artist this year. I’m thinking it’s totally unintentional: the it-always-has-to-be-this-way-doesn’t-it, boy-producing-girl-singing duo Sweet Vacation sing Ne-Yo’s “Because Of You” in a…