Mad & Sad is a brief wrangling with emotions, and of getting out the bad ones. “In 2016,i was lost in sadness and i called the feeling ‘mad sad.’ I need to create something for my brighter future,” YTAMO writes alongside this three-song therapy session. And it is at its best when really wrestling with…
Oorutaichi and YTAMO…who put out a lovely album earlier in the year, in case you forgot…sometimes team up as Yuuki, a tape-hiss-accented folk outfit that allows two artists usually pushing themselves in stranger ways to explore more conventional styles. It’s a good premise for a side project, and Ihati EP 2…a sequel to a 2011…
Another album to add to the “spring must-listen” list: experimental pop maker Ytamo has a new collection called Mi Wo out in mid March, and Tiny Mix Tapes premiered the first song from it, “Human Ocean,” recently. It’s a bouncy song built from syllables and gooey keyboard notes, everything slowly floating up, new elements caught…
This blog isn’t running in that sweet, sweet sponsorship money for many reasons, but one is because I’m willing to step back and take a look at, what in 2015 terms, is an artifact. Wonkier artists Oorutaichi and Ytamo toured the Tohoku region of Japan in 2011, and made a special EP called Ihati that…