Pigments Drift Down To The Brook
One of my primary sources for information on Japanese indie pop is Japan Live by Ken M, and one of the bands that he talks about a lot is 4 Bonjour’s Parties, a seven-member group that plays a sort of wispy, multi-layered orchestral pop. He gave their debut album Pigments Drift Down To The Brook
This is the type of album that I wish I’d bought when I was younger, and spent a lot more time just sitting next to the stereo listening to music. It’s so quiet and gentle, it drifted off into the background whenever I put it on, and after a week I felt like the album was never going to make any impression at all. But the past few days, it’s started to sink in, and I’m rapidly becoming intrigued. It reminds me a bit of various Elephant 6 collective bands (Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control) with its diverse instrumentation, ramshackle feel, and sunny 60’s pop-psych vibe. But it doesn’t sound exactly like an Elephant 6 band (a lot less guitar, for starters!), more like a cross between that and a chamber-pop group.
Anyway, this isn’t an album review, just a pointer to something that I’m starting to really dig.
4 Bonjour's Parties
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