Optloquat - From the Shallow (2021)

There has been an excess of the East Asian airy music recently and it doesn't seem to stop. The next one on the table is the Japanese Optloquat. Their loud, shoegazing music gives so much of the ethereal kind of energy, so much needed in the cloudy autumn times. They provided it on their debut LP album called From the Shallow.

The vocals here don't sound very airy per se, their dreamy abilities lay in the fact that they are hidden under the music and start in a very, very subtle way (even though they are very melodic). Even when the vocalist sounds more rock-like or sometimes even as if he was almost screaming (in 紡ぐ日々 where he sings in Japanese and it weirdly sound like an anime series' intro song), it still is lost under the overwhelming guitar music. It is very loud, very noisy and very energetic. The artists make it very rock-like but sometimes there's more nuance to it, forcing the music to go in a more dream-pop direction (like in Lapes). Still, it's always filled with the psychedelic energy and flow that makes the audience fall into the spiral of guitar trance; it's so well audible in Imaginary Host: ridiculously mesmerizing and catchy song. Pure, psychedelic fun.

From the Shallow costs 7 USD.

Check: Imaginary Host

Country: Japan

Genre: noisy psychedelic rock

Label: Jigsaw Records

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