Dream pop with a unique sound arrangement that blends elements of laid-back soul, ’60s pop, bossa nova, and loungecore with space-age electronics and effects. Twin guitars, bass, drums, electronic sounds, and effects. This kind of music is emerging from the independent scene. It’s an interesting time.
We’ve just received a new release from Sugar Brain Records, the independent label run by Knowsum—a project by Nelson Brandt released on Growing Bin Records. (Original Japanese text by Saito)
The remix by Detroit beatmaker TALL BLACK GUY is also absolutely fantastic! BROKEN KEYS—the electronic dance project of Los Angeles-based multi-artist TOMMY SHERIDAN, who also performs as part of the hip-hop duo SMOKE SCREEN and works with everything from acoustic instruments to hardware—has dropped a 7-inch EP ahead of their new album. Psychedelic indie pop where languid guitar strums, ethereal vocals, and electric piano melt together seamlessly. Highly recommended.
The multi-talented BROKEN KEYS, who has been active in Cleveland’s electronic/hip-hop community for over 10 years, has released the single “Do I Have To” ahead of the release of their new album, Moving With the Current! This dreamlike indie pop/downtempo track features melancholic, drifting vocals that blend seamlessly with psychedelic elements. Th...Read more (Original Japanese text by Akie)e original track is fantastic on its own, but it’s a real treat to have a remix by the masterful TALL BLACK GUY. He’s reworked it into a dusty downtempo track infused with Detroit-style flair, and even added an MC to expand the track’s scope. It’s great music. (Original Japanese text by Akie)
Bruno Pernadas from Portugal, who has been a favorite at our store for over 10 years and has even performed in Japan at FRUE, has released his new album, “unlikely, maybe.” The Japanese-edition LP, complete with an obi strip and liner notes, is now in stock. It captures the soaring spirit of high-quality psychedelic pop from the Golden Age, featuring a sophisticated groove that blends elements of jazz, Brazilian music, reggae, and more. He describes his own style as “Space Age Pop”—technical, fantastical, and featuring unique sound production. We highly recommend this album. If you enjoy artists like Khruanbin or Stereolab, be sure to check this out. (Saito)
Bruno Pernadas is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. His body of work, which fuses the experimental spirit of jazz, improvisation, Latin, exotic, and electronic music, has been described as “sounding like the contents of a record collector’s suitcase turned upside down after a trip around the world*,” garnering enthusiastic support fr...Read moreom rock and indie enthusiasts to world music fans alike. He can certainly be considered one of the leading artists of contemporary Portugal.
His first new album in four years, released by 〈Pataca Discos〉, was recorded in the summer of 2025. It features nine original tracks that blend rhythm sections, brass, woodwinds, vocals, and electronics. As with his previous works, Bruno takes on many roles—including writing lyrics, composing, and producing—with the exception of one track co-written with Rita Westwood, a regular collaborator on his projects.
Meanwhile, the previously released tracks “Steady Grace” and “Juro que vi túlipas” offer a glimpse into Bruno’s new artistic vision. A defining feature of these tracks is the presence of guest vocalists. Maya Brandi, who lends her voice to “Juro que vi túlipas,” is joined by Leonor Arnaut and Livia Nestrovski from Brazil as guest artists. The keyboard and vocals of long-time collaborator Margarida Campello also add a distinctive touch to the overall sound.
〈Las Los Sound〉 is a sublabel of 〈That's Love Records〉, launched by Max Shrager — of THE SHACKS, the duo who built a following on BIG CROWN before their much-lamented breakup — together with Alejandro Garcia of Thee Sacred Souls. An exciting new chapter is underway. Max Shrager teams up with NYC's PABLO, aka Paul Schalda, known for his work with Big Crown's Paul & The Tall Trees, The Sha La Das and more. Psychedelic sonics, inventive mix work, and uniquely crafted arrangements.
Another gorgeous-sounding record. You can hear traces of Chicano soul, sweet soul, psychedelic pop and even Burt Bacharach in here. A 7-inch release following the LAS LOS album. Two sides of sublime dreamy soul. Now in stock. (Original Japanese text by Saito)
A psychedelic pop quartet whose charm lies in a curious sense of nostalgia and clarity. Tokyo-based band TAMTAM, whose previous EP "Ramble in the Rainbow" drew a huge international response, follows it up with an album once again on 〈PPU〉.
Drawing inspiration from travel, this new album takes "inhabitants" as its theme — from flora and fauna to inanimate objects and imaginary creatures. With the fantastical synth work and distinctly Japanese pop melodies that stir nostalgia on "Dragon In The Lagoon" (sample_1), the quietly pulsing rhythms unfolding into a psychedelic world on "Shitat...Read more (Original Japanese text by AYAM)aru Shizuku Kin no Kame" (sample_2), and the warm wistfulness of "Touge - Kitakami" (sample_3), the band gives full rein to the groove and intoxication they do so well. Synth sounds that conjure fantastical beings, paired with groovy rhythm work that invites you to dance. You can hear the influence of jazz, soul, reggae, new age, exotica and more in production that rewards repeat listening. Lovely stuff. (Original Japanese text by AYAM)
Based between Berlin and New York, Colin Self — who released the album "Siblings" on Rvng Intl. in 2018 — returns with a third album: "respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis." Queer psychedelia. A sound that's evangelical in the vein of Sufjan Stevens, yet also hedonistic, meditative, perverse, and utterly overwhelming. A madness that feels powerful enough to repaint the state of this deranged world. There's even beauty in it. This struck me as one of the essential keys to understanding contemporary America.
"Traveling from one realm to another, summoning uncanny voices through song. Matter and immateriality, fixity and fluidity, flesh and soul... such distinctions hardly matter in the looping, endlessly intersecting world of r∞L4nGc, where radiant infinite beauty and inescapable boundless terror can become one and the same."
To carry their voic...Read more (Original Japanese text by Saito)es to the nameless spirits, the songs are sung in Latin and Polari (the coded slang used by gay men when homosexuality was illegal). Garage and modern electronic approaches, meditative falsetto vocals, pop, gorgeous, and strangely trance-inducing. An astonishing world. Limited Edition Black Vinyl. Housed in an inner sleeve featuring lyrics and additional artwork by Agosto Machado. A portion of the proceeds from this release will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, an organization that provides free medical care each year to thousands of injured and ill children who cannot receive treatment through their local healthcare systems. (Original Japanese text by Saito)
Leftfield chanson and dreamy synth-pop. Unique sound marked by playful dub and mix work, calling to mind the worlds of '80s Serge Gainsbourg and Joe Meek. Reymour is a duo based between Fribourg, Switzerland and Brussels, Belgium.
Since their first release on cassette in 2018, this duo has issued records through tape labels and on Amsterdam's Knekelhuis, a home for worldwide independent artists and unique experimental sounds. Here's their new album. Dub fans, be sure to check it out. (Original Japanese text by Saito)
DreemsのAngus Gruzman(Angelo)とJacobyのコラヴォレーション「In Your Mind」。アナログリリースは限定の7インチ。2曲。推薦。
ダフトパンク、AVALANCHES、ブライアン・ウィルソン、ナイル・ロジャース、 BBC radiophonic workshopまで引き合いに出し、リー・ペリーとセサミストリートを見た後に、LSDをキメてFOUR TETとブライアン・イーノがプロデュースした様なアルバムと紹介しています。度がすぎてます。アナログはそのアルバムから2曲。7インチ。「All Your Time」と「In Your Mind」の2曲。BIG CHILLなどを思い出すいい曲。ポジティブな音の波動です。 (サイトウ)
Phum Viphurit(プム・ヴィプリット)のビックブレイクや、クルアンビンなんかに続きそうなインドのポップバンドPETER CAT RECORDING CO.のアナログ入荷しました。 リズム・アンド・ブルース、オールド・ジャズ、70s サイケデリックポップなんかのエッセンスを見事に昇華したサウンドセンスが只者ではない最高なサウンド。こちらはPortrait of a Time (2010-2016)となずけられたアーリーワークスのコンピレーションなのか、テープ的な質感、ダブ、エディットなどラフな感じもありながらユニークなセンスが光ります。推薦盤! (サイトウ)
ANDREW GABBARDとKENDRA MORRISがビーチボーイズの名曲「Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)」カバー。
PET SOUNDS。ブライアン・ウィルソン。BEATLESのサージェント・ペパーズと並び称されるロック、サイケデリック史上のマスターピースより、「言葉はいらない、肩にもたれて、鼓動だけを聴いてくれ」という究極のロマンス「Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)」のカバー。COLEMINE RECORDS/KARMA CHIEF RECORDSから、Thee ShamsやBuffalo Killersといったバンドで15年以上にわたって活動してきたANDREW GABBARDとWAX POETICSによって発掘され、MF DOOやGHOST FACE KILLAHともコラヴォレーションする個性派女性シンガーKENDRA MORRISがそれぞれカバー。 (サイトウ)
マジカルなサイケデリックポップいいアルバム。現在のSTONES THROWの多彩さを象徴するようなプロジェクトMILD HIGH CLUBの5年ぶりとなる3RDアルバム「Going Going Gone」。到着してます!
Ariel PinkやTyler, the Creator、King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizardともコラヴォーレーション、新世代のサイケデリックポップ幅広い支持を得てきたALEXANDER BRETTINを中心としたMILD HIGH CLUBのニューアルバム。AORサウンドや、70s~80sのブラジル音楽、日本のシティポップなどからも影響を受けたという、ビートボックスな打ち込み、バンドスタイル。ビートルズやヴァン・ダイク・パークス、トッド・ラングレン等にも通じるような実験的な試みも盛り込みながら、ジャジー、AORな要素や捩れるエレクトロニック、ディテール、構成のユニークさ、カラフルなドリームポップ。現在のアメリカの状況を反映しながら、LAサイケデリックの充実ぶりを象徴するじっくりいいアルバム。マック・デマルコやBENNY SINGSファンも是非。 (サイトウ)
90年代初頭、YO LA TENGOの「May I Sing With Me」に参加して以来、第3のメンバーとしてYO LA TENGOを支え続けるJAMES McNEWのソロDUMP。実は、DUMP, YO LA TENGOファン以外にも、マニアックな音楽ファンをひっそり魅了してきた存在で、彼のファンでもある坂本慎太郎氏のレーベルzeloneからのリリースの経緯はご存知の通り。このアルバムは95年にCDのみでリリースされていたもので、当時も限定で付いてボーナスCDも含めさらにボーナス曲を加えての再発!アルバムタイトルにもなった「I Can Hear Music」はフィル・スペクター/ロネッツ/ビーチボーイズの名曲。ボンゾ・ドッグ・バンド、メイヨ・トンプソン、 Half Japanese、F...Read more (サイトウ)UGS、Ultravoxからボブ・ディランまで好事家をにやりとさせるような曲のカヴァーも交えながら、一人多重録音。ボーナスだったほうでは、ニュージーランドの奇才KRIS KNOX(Tall Dwarfs!)やBARBARA MANINGらも参加して録音しています。マニアックな音楽愛と、唯一無二の歌声、こだわりの音のヴィジョン。よりストレートに歌としての深みに向かったアルバムだといえるでしょう。すばらしすぎます。ShellacのBob WestonがリマスターMORR MUSICからの再発です。 (サイトウ)
別名義のSlumとしてWARPレコードからリリースし、その後にMO WAXと契約したDanny Sargassa, Preston MeadのParsley Sound。2枚のシングルリリースの後、MO'WAX第1期終焉を迎える2003年にリリースされたアルバム。DIYなシンセサイザーサウンド、打ち込みのビートやギターロック的なDIYサイケデリックポップ。FOUR TETやCARIBOU、Numero GroupのRob SevierやThe NTS Breakfast ShowのFlo Dillなどがファンであることを公言しています。愛すべき独特のサウンド。嬉しいアナログ再発。 (サイトウ)