The Greatest YouTube Clip Of The Year Award
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The fact this didn’t go even more viral is a sign society needs to be reset and we should all start over. Amazing on at least four levels.
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The fact this didn’t go even more viral is a sign society needs to be reset and we should all start over. Amazing on at least four levels.
We are technically on winter break around these parts, kicking back in America and gorging on Chipotle burritos. Yet you can expect a few updates here and there…still gotta put that album’s list together, right?…such as this one. Osaka’s Game Boy whiz kid 99 Letters has a new preview for a song called “Boys Like…
No group has been more influential this decade than Sotaisei Riron. That outfit’s mix of Showa-derived pop melodies and lead singer Etsuko Yakushimaru’s surreal sing-speak ended up leaving a mark on pop and rock in Japan across the past ten years, ranging from out-right imitation to blueprints towards the mainstream to stranger creations. If you…
Japanese producer Biollante caught our attention in 2013 with the melancholy, airy Alone In This World, a downbeat affair but a very memorable one. The follow-up album, Above The Branches, has arrived and it sounds a touch more upbeat, a bit more willing to let good vibes sneak in and drift upwards. Biollante’s shift comes…
Programming Note – Just got back from a small vacation in the southern hemisphere, hence the lack of posts. But from here until Christmas, I’m not going anywhere, so hopefully things will be a bit more constant. Now, to start sorting through new Japanese music… Expect this opening paragraph a lot over the next month…November…
Chelmico recently released their first full-length major label album Power, and it’s a solid shift towards bigger places for the duo. Most importantly, not much has changed now that they are on unBorde from recent EPs and a self-titled 2016 debut album. They still create upbeat genre-skipping exercises anchored in hip-hop, channeling Rip Slyme, Halcali…
Well, that is almost true. The always herky-jerky Tomodati certainly embraces juke music on his latest song, but he weaves in plenty of other elements too. For one, he approaches the jittery structure as pop, singing over the brisk beat like it is just another piece of music (bringing to mind another recent song). Yet…