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Noah – メルティング・ブル ー (Melting Blue)
Noah – メルティング・ブル ー (Melting Blue)
Japanese artist Noah shares a track from her forthcoming LP Thirty, which her label flau calls a "synth-streaked, lo-fi love letter" to her current home city of Tokyo. The record is "a diary of associated images told with all the glitz, energy, messy chaos and nostalgia that the Japanese capital conjures", and lead single "メルティング・ブル (Melting Blue)" feels like a softly
Powder – New Tribe
Powder – New Tribe
An exhilaratingly vivid new techno excursion from the cubicle to the club courtesy of Tokyo producer/DJ Powder, taken from her new 12" / compilation Powder in Space, coming next month. Animated video by AC-bu:
premiere: Hater – Coming Down
premiere: Hater – Coming Down
Malmö, Sweden indie-pop group Hater's stellar You Tried LP is a raw and emotionally charged collection of nostalgic, lovesick jams that remains one of our favorite albums of 2017. "Coming Down", a mostly unheard stunner from the You Tried sessions released as a Japan-only bonus track, is more evidence that Caroline Landahl slays, and that every song she sings feels like an empowering, po
NV – Binasu
NV – Binasu
Thanks to Adam for the heads up on Russian experimental pop luminary Kate Shilonosova, aka NV, and her entrancing and addictive new album Binasu. The adventurous, genre-defying record is teeming with otherworldly, '80s Japanese new wave-indebted pop vibes, and with songs like the very kawaii "Kata" and the twinkling title track recalling the bright playfulness of some of Miharu Koshi's m

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