Monthly Listening: Jul 2023

[adevyish]

I am currently Kirby sleeping in a bed, but it was a busy month for music and especially live music! Louis Tomlinson had a tank top torn off by fans three times. (Calvin Klein tanks survive when luxury names won’t.) Anyway, here are some songs I liked this month.

• Sakana Nikki / Suimen (CW: motion sickness) ★
  • A journey of bright hope in folk rock.
• Art-School / Moonrise Kingdom
  • The inspiration appears to be early-00s jrock groups doing Britpop, so of course I like it.
• kinopo. / Ju-tai (CW: flashing)
  • Weird idol pop! The Street View-inspired music video is fun. The song itself starts out as rapping over a drum beat with some funky retro synths but builds into a rock epiphany.
• Yukichi Kasaku/men / Youth
  • Experimental piano pop with dashes of drum n bass. It’s not piano pop without scale runs!
• Odd Eye Circle / Air Force One (CW: flashing)
  • Nice to see this Loona sub-unit back with a new agency.
• Yoshizawa Kayako / Koorigashi
  • Summer movie theme season!
• illiomote / My Super Good Friend ★
  • A fun pop punk song with a sprinkle of technopop.
• Mariana in our Heads / Shadow
  • Shoegaze dream pop meets melancholy ’00s anime ending.
• Plastic Girl in Closet / Ramune River (CW: flashing)
  • If you were wondering where the shoegaze rock went: it’s right here!
• Batten Girls / Anata-gata Dokosa ~Amakuchi Shouyu Shitate~ (CW: motion sickness)
  • More off-the-wall idol pop, this one promoting Kumamoto soy sauce. Presumably.