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Osaka’s Yuragi nearly perfected the Japanese dreampop/shoegaze aesthetic of mating cacaphonous noise with sugar-sweet melody with their first releases – 2016’s Nightlife EP and 2018’s Still Dreaming, Still Deafening – so it’s not entirely surprising that their subsequent releases didn’t bother retreading the same ground. Both 2021’s For You, Adroit It But Soft and 2023’s […]
My appreciation for Tokyo’s yuragi predates my J-gaze obsession, so they certainly helped lay the groundwork for where my head is now and deserve some (more) props. This live clip comes from the October 2021 release show at Shibuya WWW for their sophomore effort For You, Adroit It But Soft; it’s an album that certainly […]
I’ve yet to go fully down the rabbit hole of Japanese shoegaze and dreampop as it is both vast and deep, but if and when I do, it will probably be Toyko quartet yuragi that leads me there. They won me over with their initial short-players – 2016’s Nightlife EP and 2018’s epic mini-album Still […]
Japanese shoegazers yuragi were celebrated hereabouts last March for their 2018 EP Still Dreaming, Still Deafening, and they followed it up this Summer with For You, Adroit It But Soft, which is framed as their debut album despite it actually clocking in at two minutes shorter than the EP. The record rollout was accompanied by […]
Finding info on indie Japanese bands is not so easy; I had to sift through three bands with the same name (and one anime series) just to make sure I had the right people in the promo photo. But as far as I’ve been able to discern, they’re a four-piece from Shiga prefecture in Japan, […]
