Parannoul – “연말 다짐”

Happy New Year, not only from me, but also from Parannoul who rang in 2026 with a new single. “연말 다짐” – which translates to “Year-end Resolutions” – showed up online on New Year’s Day via an Instagram story with the caption, “Happy 2026 – I Hope To Achieve Something This Year”. To imply that […]

Slow Salvation – “The Ghost Of Last Christmas”

The trope of multi-instrumentalist dude and ghostly-voiced girl is a familiar one in dreampop – some might want to use the word cliche – but there’s a reason it persists; when it hits, it hits just right. Slow Salvation score pretty high on both precision and accuracy, with Nashville’s Travis Trevisan (formerly of Tape Deck Mountain) […]

KILDREN – “December”

I’ve been intermittently tracking Tokyo’s KILDREN for a little while now, both because I like their music and because I’ve found their ongoing identity evolution interesting to watch. To recap, their first singles in Spring 2024 placed them firmly on the pop side of the J-gaze spectrum, but a year later they scrubbed those songs […]

Hatchie – “Sage”

Somehow lost in the rollout of Hatchie’s third album Liquorice last month was that, following what had been a pretty conventional rollout of singles/videos leading up the record’s street date – “Lose It Again” in September, “Only One Laughing” in October – there was a big ol’ video dump on release day, consisting of an […]