Singaporean pop musician St. Humain seems to have the modern pop formula down pat. On the 7 songs off of his debut EP, EMOTIONAL SAUNA (yes, all caps!), there’s not a single dull moment to ...
If there’s one song that spoke to the power of YouTube algorithms in 2018, it would have to be Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plastic Love”. Almost out of nowhere, this decades-old Japanese pop song which had once ...
Although somewhat under a cloak of anonymity in the virtual realm, Australian musician Aquila Young projects a commanding presence in her latest single, “Closer”. “Closer” opens to a barely audible tinkling that slowly builds to ...
Over the summer, Mitski released Be The Cowboy, her avant-garde spin on the American mythos and coincidentally, one of the best albums of the year. Now she’s back, releasing a video for one of the more ...
When I first asked my mother about the types of songs that she listened to growing up, she had a hard time picking a favourite. “I like all of them,” she confessed. “It’s too hard ...
About a year ago, Miya Folick released the music video to “Give It To Me”, the lead single off of her eponymous Give It To Me EP. The concept–which finds Folick singing and screaming on a ...
The Matrix meets bubblegum kawaii in Singaporean singer-songwriter Jasmine Sokko’s video for her latest EDM-influenced single, “HURT”. In her press statement, the visor-donning artist stated that the song’s inspiration comes from miscommunication and misperceptions that she’s had ...
What do you see when you look at a painting by Japanese artist Indo Hisashi? For most, the answer is nothing. Hisashi’s paintings are monochromatic, simplistic, and seemingly unskilled to most–belonging to the same class ...
What does it take to be an international pop star in 2018? Karencici's about to find out.
Rising Japanese-British pop star Rina Sawayama isn’t one to shy away from the spotlight for long. Just a few months after releasing her critically acclaimed EP, RINA, she released a one-off single for Valentine’s Day: ...
