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Snail’s House “プラネット・ガール”

The best elevator pitch I could give you for Snail’s House is that it’s like Discovery-era Daft Punk filtered through the aesthetics of J-Pop. It’s a big, bright, bouncy sound that sounds like pure, earnest optimism. There’s something so wholesome about this – it’s music that sounds like it’s from a world where everything is fun and nothing is creepy.

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MADMADMAD “Gwarn”

And this one is just the opposite. “Gwarn” has very ‘00s aesthetics, like the DFA and Ed Banger discographies colliding at top speed into a Misshapes party. It’s seedy but glamorous, like a pretty rich kid who’s filthy and gross in designer clothes. It’s fun, but largely because it evokes a world where everything is creepy.

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