Tricot have a new EP out at the end of the month, and they’ve shared the first taste of it with “Setsuyakuka,” a shifty number that starts as a dash before turning more inward…and then zooms off again to the finish. It’s a formula they’ve stuck to throughout their career, but one they still excel…
20. Lolica Tonica Make Me Feel EP Tokyo’s Trekkie Trax runs on pure energy, the netlabel being a rare case where seeing anyone in their orbit live trumps digging into the .ZIP files they upload online. And they have released a lot of great dance music over the last couple of years, with 2015 being…
(Obligatory “oh hey I interviewed Tricot for The Fader last week, check it out” sentence) What Tricot have always pulled off so well — but what they’ve especially gotten good at doing over their last two releases — is making such carefully planned out music sound like its seconds away from breaking apart. New song…
So let’s just get this out of the way…the concept for the video accompanying “Break” is pretty goofy. Like, goofy in a “this is very sweet but there is no doubt a thousand bored camp counselors have had the same idea” kind of way – someone should rip a piece of paper that says “this…
There are a handful of bands in Japan right now that have been hyped up in the last few years that are capable of good music but seem jussssssssssst short of being something really special. andymori was close, but chose the easy money rehashing indie-pop 101. Kinoco Hotel has the look and live show, but…