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New Shugo Tokumaru Video - Clocca (Stereogum Premiere) -

Prodigal pop amalgamist Shugo Tokumaru plays all his instruments (unless he's being backed by the National and Beirut dudes) and multi-tracks his way into rarified space, spinning contemporary and classical Western music forms into a patchwork of highly original, often fantastical set pieces. This animated clip for for...

New Shugo Tokumaru Video - Clocca (Stereogum Premiere) -

Prodigal pop amalgamist Shugo Tokumaru plays all his instruments (unless he's being backed by the National and Beirut dudes) and multi-tracks his way into rarified space, spinning contemporary and classical Western music forms into a patchwork of highly original, often fantastical set pieces. This animated clip for for...

Shugo Tokumaru -

"Parachute"from the album Exit2008iTunesShugo Tokumaru is a 28-year-old Japanese musician and multi-instrumentalist you should have heard of, in some ideal world where exciting and unique pop songwriters get everyone excited. As it stands, this unassuming singer is hardly known outside of Japan, even though he's previously released two charming chamber-pop...

Shugo Tokumaru at Mercury Tonight -

Japanese indie pop musician Shugo Tokumaru makes his U.S. debut tonight (finally!) at Mercury Lounge. He is celebrating the release of his latest album, which is the first to be released in the U.S. It’s called Exit and it is marvelous. Full of joyful hooks and bouncy melodies it puts...

Tiny People Singing Over The Rainbow - Gutevolk is Hirono Nishiyama, and she sounds like a Bjork you can approach, a subdued Bjork that will not suddenly chew one of your limbs off on a whim. Gutevolk is sweet pop-folk that makes for easy listening, though not in a syrupy way. This record is just a nice...

The Books: The Way Out -

Like a surrealistic post-music maelstrom, experimental twosome The Books has taken its cerebral folk jams to the next sonic stratosphere on the mind-bending effort The Way Out. Landing firmly in the footsteps of aural innovators like Eno and Bowie, The Books challenges the notion of conventional songwriting with a revolutionary...

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