Watch (A Better Quality!) Video Of Sakanaction’s “Boku To Hana”
Much finer quality than when we first got a glimpse of this. Watch above, and have a nice weekend.
Much finer quality than when we first got a glimpse of this. Watch above, and have a nice weekend.
Smany’s latest album To Lie Latent isn’t quite a new release. Rather, it features a lot of glances back at the wispy electronic singer/songwriter’s history. Some songs are simply brought back, while others — such as “2113,” originally released in 2014 via Bunkai-Kei Records — get updated and played around with. It’s a personal favorite…
Harvard broke up back in 2007, but recently it became clear they were ready to give it the ol’ college try one more time. The Ivy-League-named duo started popping up on live events posters and getting Twitter mentions. Now, to confirm that this is for serious, they have a new album out and a single…
Tension has always been central to the music Tokyo’s LLLL creates, the shadowy electronics giving way to moments of ecstasy and hope…although they never come easy. “Breathless” is a series of reflections and emotional bursts, moving from slower passages to split-seconds of silence bursting alive right after. The key, though, is a guest appearance from…
Half Mile Beach Club have a new album out this week, but it isn’t quite a new album. Be Built, Then Lost serves as an intro to the outfit’s blurred take on beach tunes for a larger audience, and that partially involves a lot of familiar cuts — including many from last year’s lovely indie…
The rise of “Soundcloud rap” as primary inspiration for a certain corner of young Japanese rappers has been a mixed bag. For my taste, it has worked out much better than every other new artist trying really hard to be Future and failing, but it still has a pretty high miss rate in general, with…
It’s a match made in peppy pop heaven. Brinq and Antenna Girl have both made springy, at-times busy dance-pop over the last couple of years, so seeing the two collaborate on an EP together isn’t too surprising, though it’s also plenty welcome. “Lonely Lonely Blue” offers the first taste of the forthcoming Sayonara EP, and…