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ちょ-ちょ (with Nico) ~ PLVS VLTRA (a solo music project by Toko Yasuda of St. Vincent)

I think that this song title is pronounced, “Cho-cho”, which means butterfly in Japanese.

While on a hiatus, St. Vincent’s mini-Moog player continues to be playfully creative. This is another song from the new PLVS VLTRA album, “Yo-Yo Blue”, on Field Hymns Records.

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Synthesizer ingeniero and friend of evil robots Oxykitten has dropped a free album’s worth of odds-and-ends on the Field Hymns Bandcamp. Righteously described as “killer but odd cuts,” almost all 15 tracks on Fugue State clock in around two minutes, which basically makes it perfect by punk rock standards. Despite this brevity, Oxykitten maintains a consistent attention to detail. Some tracks seem perfectly suited for interludes to longer epics, while others seem to fit nicely i

beachsloth: Oxykitten - Fugue State 7.8                 Oxykitten gives a few details into its origin. These songs are incredibly short, with only three out of the sixteen above the three minute mark. ‘Fugue State’ excels at the concept of brevity. In fact many of these songs appear to fall into an almost irreverent punk-like attitude. Sounds are deliberately picked for a rather nostalgic old chiptune approach. Pop structures guide most of these with little in the way of experimentation. Keeping everything short helps to increase the impact of each song.                  ‘Mingu’ starts off the album on a goofy loopy start. Playing around with the flexible noises Oxykitten spends time almost as an intro track before the real track begins out of nowhere. A beat generally shows when Oxykitten is willing to engage in more pop friendly approaches. On ‘Cannibal Run’ a strange video game level can almost be envisioned due to its cinematic nature. This is taken to an even more ludicrous extreme on the track ‘DIE DIE DIE’ which devolves into a fun little stomp of a melody by the very end. For ‘Inspector 2211’ Oxykitten stretches the song out almost into the six minute mark. Here Oxykitten later shows what sort of ideas he’d later explore. The wobbly bass makes it particularly enjoyable.                  ‘Topicalia’ besides engaging in a particularly terrible pun stumbles through its duration as if in a haze. At the very end the last two songs with both barely over a minute shows elements of what a sketch of an Oxkykitten track might look like. ‘Fugue State’ is an interesting listen the beginning of Oxykitten.

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