Monthly Listening: Apr & May 2025

[adevyish]

I have two months to catch up on so this is pretty packed.

• ayutthaya / Get Out
  • Really leaning into that 90s rock aesthetic.
• kurayamisaka / sekisei inko (CW: motion sickness, flashing)
  • More 90s-style rock.
• Suichu Spica / Reverb
  • Always enjoy some math rock. This one isn’t too dense so should be enjoyable for math rock non-enthusiasts too.
• yeti let you notice / 37 sec (CW: motion sickness, a lot of flashing)
  • Math rock and shoegaze.
• kinoue64 / Nichijou Shometsu ★
  • Messy heavy shoegaze. kinoue64 has managed to find the best way to use Vocaloid on over-amped guitar, and it’s exemplified in this song.
• Sato Keigo / Inertia
  • Hokkaido University Light Music Club compilation season is the best j-indie season. This is one of many songs I enjoyed from this year’s compilation!
• Asami Tono / Azure
  • Dream pop with some lovely countermelodies.
• yuragi / While My Waves Wonder ★
  • Gorgeous floaty shoegaze. Loved this entire album.
• Yono / Yume no Naka de Aishite (CW: flashing)
  • Dark chamber pop of the kind found in some obscure dating sim.
• Paica / Echoes of Reality ★
  • I’ve Sound–style trance lovers: we’re so back.
• anzunokumo / may
  • Stuttery vocaloid trance.
• Towa Tei / Typical! (feat. Takkyu Ishino)
  • Instant technopop classic. Kicks off with a reference to “Physical” and then goes straight into Vocaloid experimentation land.
• Empty Old City / Buffer ★
  • Two-step electropop with lots of sparkly and jazz bits.
• Aiobahn / Shiawase ni Nante Naranai de feat. Nanawoakari
  • And now some poppy, almost twee, electropop.
• Aiscream / Aiscream (CW: flashing) ★
  • Chances are if you are in the j-pop space at all you’ll have heard a 15-second snippet of this viral Love Live song. However stick around for the vocal breakdown at the end!

Bonus: Y2K Corner

• Halcali / Tandem
  • Halcali was chosen in a Rip Slyme audition for female rappers. chelmico has cited Rip Slyme as an influence and it’s interesting to see it from this angle.