Bleep

Blink and you’ll miss the high speed jazz and breakcore bursts of Hakushi Hasegawa’s debut album Air Ni Ni. Released in 2019, it solidifies the buzz both in their native Japan and their growing international audience with dreamily collapsing and dizzyingly ecstatic experiments in glitchy J pop. ‘Only You’ sugar rushes in with explosive rainbow arrangements of stop-start brass and labyrinthine staccato pianos, while ‘Stamens, Pistils, Parties’ teases out structured songwriting from the joyful chaos, as emotive falsettos join the jaunt of trilling keys and washes of cymbals. A relentlessly beautiful series of glittering chain reactions.