Happy you found stuff you like.
Guess I might as well recommend TENDRE and Lucky Tapes as well.
Also, one of my favorite new artists is Mom, so I'm legally obligated to recommend him even if he doesn't fit the criterias.
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Guess I might as well recommend TENDRE and Lucky Tapes as well.
Also, one of my favorite new artists is Mom, so I'm legally obligated to recommend him even if he doesn't fit the criterias.
That Metro-Ongen song reminded my of Homecomings.
For jazzy stuff:
Mime
showmore
CRCK/LCKS
Spangle call Lilli line
D.A.N.
TAMTAM
CICADA
The fin.
And maybe some city pop-ish/electronica stuff? HALLCA, SHE IS SUMMER, リリリップス, 脇田もなり, フィロソフィーのダンス
You guys gave me so much to work with. Thank you so much!
Others have already posted most of my picks, so I'll stick to stuff I don't think has shown up yet:
alternative/chill rock
OK?NO!! (sadly long dead but super fun and jangly; their last album is not on Bandcamp but also great)
Yoshida Yohei Group (I think of them as the Japanese Dirty Projectors but without the weird uncomfortable breakup issues)
Sunny Day Service
chill vocal electronic
Mondo Grosso (you've probably already heard this but just in case!)
ame to kanmuri (seriously one of my favourite discoveries of the past five years)
jazzy hip-hop stuff
iri (speaking of favourite discoveries; this leans more city pop/r&b)
CRCK/LCKS (so good I had to mention them again)
mononkul
cero (heavy on the jazz, very light on the hip-hop, figured you might like it anyways maybe?)
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This is so great, thank you. I'll be diving into the hip hop stuff first tomorrow night when I boot up Rocket League. Much appreciated.
Always in for fun hip-hop. Discovered them a few months ago, they're pretty kewl. Looks like they're moving to Victor.
ladyluthien you might enjoy this?
*DAB*
Melt-Banana interview. If we got any people here in the UK. The band is coming in October.
Youtube feed of Summer Sonic 2019
https://www.kerrang.com/features/peeling-back-the-skin-who-are-the-real-melt-banana/
So I have a friend that's in Japan for a while and they just sent me this video, and we're currently trying to figure out who this is and what song it is, I was wondering if I could get a little backup on this one? It's a pretty short clip but hopefully someone might know.
Sorry Genryu . All I can tell from that clip is that it's some "visual kei" band, but that's a big blind spot for me.
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Finally got around to Shiina Ringo's new effort. My goodness! My goodness!!! This lady still has the lust for music. Album comes out kicking with a track that has me all like, "man this girl is going a little wild. And coming in with English right off the bat. K." The album has superb instrumental playing. The songs range from classy to humorous to way out there. Shiina seems so confident and in control of it all. She has that special aura around her where you almost feel like "well I better straighten my back and have something substantial to say at the table" were you to for some reason be seated at some dinner party. I don't know what I expected going in. I just didn't know I would be so satisfied and at times even laughing at how good the record turned out to be. Well I know what I expected in a way, which is the same for any artist who has been in the game long enough; are they going to be boring old Abaneezer Geezers clinching on to the past or just being a more generic version of themselves. Happens to pretty much every music artist and that doesn't detract from the strong days of their career. I was just a little worried the time might be coming for Shiina. Not so fast boiyzzz!
Great damn record.
I think my fav was track 9, which is actually more straightforward rock, but just really solid to me (and totally gives me some Radiohead vibes too).
Edit: and please listen with headphones or quality speakers. Playing form a phone or laptop speakers does absolutely no justice to the instruments.
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Finally got around to Shiina Ringo's new effort. My goodness! My goodness!!! This lady still has the lust for music. Album comes out kicking with a track that has me all like, "man this girl is going a little wild. And coming in with English right off the bat. K." The album has superb instrumental playing. The songs range from classy to humorous to way out there. Shiina seems so confident and in control of it all. She has that special aura around her where you almost feel like "well I better straighten my back and have something substantial to say at the table" were you to for some reason be seated at some dinner party. I don't know what I expected going in. I just didn't know I would be so satisfied and at times even laughing at how good the record turned out to be. Well I know what I expected in a way, which is the same for any artist who has been in the game long enough; are they going to be boring old Abaneezer Geezers clinching on to the past or just being a more generic version of themselves. Happens to pretty much every music artist and that doesn't detract from the strong days of their career. I was just a little worried the time might be coming for Shiina. Not so fast boiyzzz!
Great damn record.
I think my fav was track 9, which is actually more straightforward rock, but just really solid to me (and totally gives me some Radiohead vibes too).
Edit: and please listen with headphones or quality speakers. Playing form a phone or laptop speakers does absolutely no justice to the instruments.
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i've asked for recs in these genres in the past but some new names popped up this time so thanks for asking, as well, haha
Just saw some clips from the Number Girl reunion livestream. Goddamn, they still sound amazing. Really hoping they keep playing shows and maybe even make a new album.
They've announced a winter tour. No words on new material yet.
Parts I really like : 1:05 - 1:52 (essentially the pre-chorus, chorus and post chorus)
Parts I love: 2:39 - to the end. Just builds on top of that what I already liked in that previously mentioned section.
Kinda so so on the verses.
Not liking the bit from 2:25 to 2:38. Just didn't do it for me.
Like the snare sound of the drums.
Oddly enough it sounds like a heavily remixed The Strokes track. Or maybe some Julian would cook up solo. I can almost perfectly hear his vocals on this. Heck Julian should do his own remix of this track heh.
This has gotten my attention though. I'll check into their discography during the week. This is a cool song. I like it emotionally.
Got myself Suchmos, ONE OK ROCK and Keyakizaka46's latest live footages yay
Started listening to BiSH the other day and quickly fell in love with more than like, but something about it sounded really familiar
I realized the riff and some other parts are pretty close to this song by the American (pop)-punk band RVIVR, especially the solo-ish thing towards the end
I realized the riff and some other parts are pretty close to this song by the American (pop)-punk band RVIVR, especially the solo-ish thing towards the end
Not sure if these really fit the thread, since Moe Shop are a French producer, but they've been living in Tokyo and actually started doing music in Tokyo, and always do features with a ton of Japanese artists. I love their style.
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I really like their stuff since they started collaborating with Japanese artists, I've been getting into Future Funk because of them and Desired.
I don't know if it fits either but Moe Moe was one of my favourite albums from last year so I approve nonetheless!
Posting these and having the Euphoria banner for your profile. That's awesome.
Yes. Listen to JJJ, Kid Fresino, and Febb as Young Mason (RIP).
Kurita also introduced me to WILYWNKA earlier this year, and he's great, too.
I was just looking at the first page again, and I remembered we never chose a little line after |OT|
I don't think those are great, but does anyone have any ideas?
I don't think those are great, but does anyone have any ideas?
Saw RADWIMPS yesterday at Yokohama Arena and man, it was mind blowing from start to finish.
Sometimes I forget how fucking amazing they are. They killed it.
Fantastic setlist, fans, venue...
As for the best part of the show... ONE OK ROCK's Taka came out to sing IKIJIBIKI 😭😭 It was the first time they managed to invite him on this tour (OOR are busy as hell so hey) so I'm incredibly lucky. The whole arena lost their collective shit when Yojiro introduced him. I just went nuts, don't think I've ever screamed this much lol
Setlist if you're curious
Sometimes I forget how fucking amazing they are. They killed it.
Fantastic setlist, fans, venue...
As for the best part of the show... ONE OK ROCK's Taka came out to sing IKIJIBIKI 😭😭 It was the first time they managed to invite him on this tour (OOR are busy as hell so hey) so I'm incredibly lucky. The whole arena lost their collective shit when Yojiro introduced him. I just went nuts, don't think I've ever screamed this much lol
Setlist if you're curious