Monthly Listening: May 2023

[adevyish]

I was wondering where the good music was and then everyone I like released albums in the last eight days of May.

• mitsume / Drive
  • For all those summer roadtrip playlists.
• Bungeitengoku / plan-ted forest (Kyokuchi Kakeikaku) (CW: flashing, motion sickness)
  • Happysad pop rock.
• Chilli Beans. / you n me (CW: motion sickness)
  • Dream pop punk perfect for a Netflix teen romcom.
• Galileo Galilei / Guitar Bag ★
  • A hopeful pop rock number off their first album in seven years.
• Sakamoto Maaya / Naimononedari
  • Maaya’s latest album has songwriters from across j-indie, and this one composed by Arauchi Yu of cero features my favourite kind of Maaya music, experimental pop.
• cero / Sleepra
  • Speaking of cero, they also have a new album out.
• No Party for Cao Dong / Daydream (Báirìmòng) ★
  • In turns wistful and angry, this song (and the album it’s from) is dedicated to their drummer who passed away in 2021.
• SARI / Ai no Yurikago ★
  • Glitchy experimental electropop.
• illiomote / Yakedo
  • A softer take on house music.
• Wednesday Campanella / Seven Lucky Gods (Shichifukujin)
  • WedCamp dips out of poppy house music for a spell with a hardcore song and some familiar vocal fx.
• Käärijä / Cha Cha Cha (CW: flashing, alcohol mention)
  • Song of the summer!

Comments

[veriest]

omg, I just remembered the existence of sakamoto maaya randomly like two days ago. I've been listening to the card captor OST since then, such a nostalgia trap.

Also Finland was so robbed!!!!

[adevyish]

Her new album (Kioku no Toshokan) is rly good if you like her older stuff.

So robbed! I saw a clip of the German hockey team going off to Cha Cha Cha; it’s everywhere.