Monthly Listening: Apr 2023

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Posting this a bit early because surely no one’s going to release music on a Sunday. Right?

• Patrick Wolf / Nowhere Game (CW: horror)
  • Back this year after a decade away from music. A great bit of dark art pop with some electro unease.
• miina and luci / Francoise Gilot (Orange wo Tabeta) ★
  • Hesitant melancholic indie pop from Sayonara Ponytail’s vocalist.
• Ozone / Painful Hug (Tòngkǔ Yǒngbào) (CW: flashing)
  • Six months and six music videos into debut, Ozone finally drops the K-pop pretensions and goes full Mandopop rock ballad.
• Agust D / Snooze feat. Sakamoto Ryuichi & Kim Woosung (The Rose)
  • A sequel to “So Far Away” that’s more bitter than sweet. (Especially given the lyrics and a member of The Rose featuring.)
• Chanmina / I’m Not OK (live) (CW: flashing)
  • Although this song starts in Chanmina’s hip hop lane, the chorus is pure pop punk anthem.
• Fennel / dive deep
  • Slow build 90s post-punk from tricot bassist hirohiro.
• Hitsujibungaku / Fool (CW: motion sickness, eating)
  • A song about bargaining, driven by inescapable guitar and floaty choral vocals.
• Snarls / Walk In The Woods
  • This is one of the indie bands opening for Louis Tomlinson on his North American tour! Dream emo pop.
• Homecomings / Us (CW: motion sickness) ★
  • Hopeful shoegaze woven with dreamy details and sprinkled with dissonance.
• Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra / Yuu 5ji feat. xiangyu ★
  • The experimental leanings of electronica but with a proper brass section to draw some depth out.
• Olive Girl / Teatro
  • Neo city pop, sure, but it’s much closer to the original jazz funk influences and the CLAMP-adjacent 90s city pop I listened to before the city pop revival.
• Lee Chae Yeon / Knock (CW: flashing, motion sickness)
  • Very catchy late 2000s dance pop with updated production but god the camera motion on this music video was actually worse than Chanmina’s “Doctor” which is saying something.
• Sirup / Fine Line feat. Skaai (prod. uin) (CW: flashing, motion sickness)
  • I am posting this as much for the music video as the catchy glitchy house beat.

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Also a little bonus this month: a Spotify playlist of the songs performed at the Said the Whale × VSO concert, minus the brand-new Overture — here!