Various - City Music TokyoThere is so much to discover, and love, about Japanese pop music, and in particular the genre known as City Pop, with elements of disco, R&B, funk, AOR and soul released in the 1970s and 1980s. There were also traces of the genre in the 1990s and it is increasingly found in todays pop music, both stylistically and through sampling, with artists like The Weeknd, Benny Sings and Friday Night Plans opening up the sound to a whole new generation of music

“I kind of wanted a rest from verbalizing everything

As for "seduction

but ideas were shared

Formed in 1987 by Neil Hagerty (vocals

“These things became the vehicle by which we travelled

The motorik origins of the band on their debut Radiate

the rippling instrumental harmonics - shifting between abstraction and playful melody - fold so seamlessly into the birdsong

featuring David Vincent (bass) and Pete Sandoval drums (later of Morbid Angel)

It has quickly become the musical center of West-Africa

‰Û÷Coma‰۪ and ‰Û÷Radial‰۪ are the first songs to be heard from their recording sessions made in Sub Station Studios in Rosyth in Scotland with the current line up of Robert Hampson (vocals/guitar)

out on Friday 9th June 2023 via XL Recordings

not unlike those of David Byrne and Brian Eno