- Record Label: Light in the Attic Records
- Release Date: Jan 22, 2021
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Apr 6, 2021There are, perhaps, less essential tracks here than on either of those two releases, but when it is at its best, as it is on Noriko Miyamoto’s “Arrows & Eyes,” Dip in the Pool’s “Hasu No Enishi,” and Mishio Ogawa’s “Hikari No Ito Kin No Ito,” it surely ranks some of the best work that has so far been highlighted by this wonderful series of retrospectives.
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Apr 6, 2021Each one is more exploratory and/or less commercial than any of its counterparts. This is evidenced most strongly by the bleak post-punk electronics of Perfect Mother, whose "Dark Disco -- Da-Da-Da-Da-Run" convulses like an outgrowth of Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire (and was previously excavated by the Minimal Wave label). Starker still and more alien is an alternately thudding and twinkling cut from R.N.A.-Organism.
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Apr 6, 2021While city pop and environmental music thrive in functional settings that immediately translate across cultures, Somewhere Between feels part of a broader refusal to be understood on the same terms, forcing listeners to engage with a history that goes deeper than immediate feeling.