Monthly Listening: Nov 2022

[adevyish]

Bit of a busy month for music; I removed a lot more songs off my draft than usual. Faves ★’d.

• Pasocom Music Club / Sign feat. Fujii Takashi ★
  • This might have contemporary production but it’s got the same catchy chaos as a Kodocha opening.
• Jiyuugaoka & Sangatsu / Shinsekai Cybernetic
  • A dream pop take on new wave city pop.
• kiki vivi lily / Romance
  • Cheery, twinkly café j-pop like it’s 2002.
• RYUTist / PASSPort (prod. Hasunuma Shuta) ★
  • RYUTist asks what would happen if you pair acid house with indie pop brass.
• Hot Chip / Broken (CW: flashing)
  • Hot Chip have been mining the 80s for a while, but “Broken” sees them turn their shovels from disco to new wave.
• yahyel / Highway (CW: flashing)
  • The video shows kinda cursed HTML; the music starts off as their usual electronic dark pop with rock roots before dissolving into a new-for-them dance break.
• Lausbub / Wind City ★
  • It’s the technopop teens again, with an uneasy start-and-stop of a song.
• Louis Tomlinson / The Greatest ★
  • It was so hard to pick one off this album; I changed my mind every week! I had the demo for this song on repeat finishing up my lastest fic.
• Faye (Chan Wen-ting) / yong ai (CW: flashing)
  • Mid-2010s dark pop vibes.
• Iris / Keep You Safe (piano ver.)
  • This is one of my fave story songs in Deemo II so far.
• Limonium / Ichibansen Kudari
  • I can’t resist the guitar-driven mid-2000s j-drama theme sound.
• Spool / (image for) drawing on canvas
  • Fuzzy guitar countermelodies lead into a dissonant chorus-turned-breakdown.
• ayutthaya / Landmark
  • Sprinkles of math rock cacophony woven with a soaring chorus.
• Qujila Yoluno Machi / Eden ★
  • Piano-driven pop rock in the vein of indies-era Gesu no Kiwami Otome but less jazz and more guitar.
• Mega Shinnosuke / Saraba Uchuu, Kanata Mirai (CW: flashing)
  • 90s j-pop-rock, down to the music video homage to hide with Spread Beaver.
• AprilBlue / Land of Words (Kotonoha no Kuni)
  • Closing out with more shoegaze.

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P.S. Since the song wasn’t out when I previously rec’d what turned out to be a demo, here’s Louis Tomlinson / Lucky Again (non-demo version).

P.P.S. My arms are so sore from shovelling snow.