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- Record Label: Light in the Attic Records
- Release Date: Jan 22, 2021
- Summary: The latest release from Light in the Attic's Japanese Archival Series features artists from independent labels like Vanity Records and artists such as Ojima and Naoki Asai who self-released their music.
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- Record Label: Light in the Attic Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Art Rock, Experimental Electronic, Synth Pop, International, New Wave, Obscuro, Minimalism
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Apr 6, 2021There are, perhaps, less essential tracks here than on either of those two releases, but when it is at its best, as it is on Noriko Miyamoto’s “Arrows & Eyes,” Dip in the Pool’s “Hasu No Enishi,” and Mishio Ogawa’s “Hikari No Ito Kin No Ito,” it surely ranks some of the best work that has so far been highlighted by this wonderful series of retrospectives.
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Apr 6, 2021Each one is more exploratory and/or less commercial than any of its counterparts. This is evidenced most strongly by the bleak post-punk electronics of Perfect Mother, whose "Dark Disco -- Da-Da-Da-Da-Run" convulses like an outgrowth of Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire (and was previously excavated by the Minimal Wave label). Starker still and more alien is an alternately thudding and twinkling cut from R.N.A.-Organism.
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Apr 6, 2021While city pop and environmental music thrive in functional settings that immediately translate across cultures, Somewhere Between feels part of a broader refusal to be understood on the same terms, forcing listeners to engage with a history that goes deeper than immediate feeling.
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Apr 6, 2021It doesn't get bogged down in a particular style. It's not a pop/funk hybrid. It's not minimalism. It's a combination of many different styles from a country that was enjoying national prosperity and using all the tools at their disposal to make unique artistic statements. As a result, it's one of Light in the Attic's best compilations in awhile.