Monthly Listening: Nov/Dec 2025

[adevyish]

I’ve been battling migraines on and off for the past several weeks, so this is an iosyscore-free zone as much as Maltine Records is trying otherwise.

• Perfume / Fumetsu no anata
  • I’m not ready for their “cryosleep” (hiatus) :(
• Kitamura Fuki / Used to Fall
  • From Kitamura Fuki’s debut album Spira1oop, one of this year’s j-edm highlights. Unfortunately edm is too headache so I’m saving the album for the new year.
• LLLL × Meishi Smile / Senritsu ★
  • City, the Maltine Records 20th anniversary compilation, is a must-listen for any netlabel aficionado. My netlabel fave of 2016 LLLL (/foɹ.ɛl/) and long-time collaborator Meishi Smile show themselves in top form with this hardcore hopecore track.
• D.A.N. / Daydreaming I & Daydreaming II
  • Daydreaming but sometimes the low-grade anxiety sets in.
• Yukiguni / The Dream of the Evening Cicada (Higurashi no Yume) ★
  • The musical encapsulation of walking out in a drizzle until you must scream.
• Hollerado / What Killed Elvis Presley? (CW: pandemic mention) ★
  • Canadian indie is so back.
• cambelles / Giddy Parades (Machiba)
  • A twangy folk guitar sun-dappered walk into a sax solo, then back again.
• ohayoumadarou / Crawl
  • A Garageband-y mix of swirling electronica and sing-rap from Rachel (chelmico)’s first solo album.
• RAY / Seiza no Yozora
  • It’s math rock, shoegaze, and sparkly idol pop.
• Laura day romance / running in the dark ★
  • The lead single from their second full-length album this year. I haven’t sung along to a chorus about closing my eyes this ferally since Bastille in 2012.
• kurayamisaka / sunday driver ★
  • I love songs about yearning as you undertake a journey, and better yet this is a great one to turn up while you’re driving.
• Sayonara Ponytail / Água (Mizu)
  • Other people set lofi beats to study to, I put on Sayonara Ponytail’s light bossanova album and crank out code.
• Hoshino Gen / Glitch (CW: flashing)
  • Fun pop song with a bit of a math jazz influence.