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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Japanese artist Eiko Ishibashi features contributions from Jim O'Rourke (who also produced) and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Experimental, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Apr 14, 2025Antigone is one of most intelligent, beautiful and entrancing albums you're likely to hear all year. [Apr 2025, p.26]
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Apr 14, 2025Ishibashi arrives at points of repose on “Nothing As” and the closing title track, leaving behind the more challenging arrangements to focus on piano and a yearning vocal melody. It’s these moments of immediacy and unassuming beauty that leave the strongest impression.
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Apr 14, 2025Listening to Antigone, one can hear everything Ishibashi has achieved in these fruitful past few years coming to a head. It’s a risk-taking, ambitious album-length statement that further cements Ishibashi’s place in a rare pantheon of artists – one including O’Rourke, Scott Walker and Autechre – making some of their best work thirty-plus years into their career.
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The WireApr 14, 2025The music has the translucent character of Ishibashi’s soundtracks for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s films, where its resonance and weight change depending on the attention you pay to them. Ishibashi’s vocals are airy, light, almost noncommittal, but this only adds another layer of enigma and malleability. [Apr 2024, p.54]