{"id":39559,"date":"2015-11-24T14:06:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=39559"},"modified":"2015-12-03T17:48:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T23:48:02","slug":"the-japanese-house-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/11\/24\/the-japanese-house-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese House: Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ArticleSharedImage-55244-e1448394851939.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-39959 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ArticleSharedImage-55244-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ArticleSharedImage-55244\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>The Japanese House is the pseudonym of Amber Bain from the UK, following her first debut EP released\u00a0just ten days before. Mysterious in how fresh it is,\u00a0<em>Clean<\/em>\u00a0shows promise even though there are a few kinks to be worked out.<\/p>\n<p>The title track, &#8220;Clean,&#8221; is an excellent single in itself. As the album continues onward through its four tracks, the beats all seem to follow a running synth, alt-pop rhythm. Although reminiscent of the moody, slow vibes of bands like the XX, also from the UK, <em>Clean<\/em>\u00a0ventures into some fairly refreshing ground. As the EP rolls onward and into &#8220;Cool Blue,&#8221; the tone carries onward but raises the synths and sound a little louder. The instrumentation, including the hazy guitar, grows into a greater, less funneled sound. Sadly, the fault of this EP is the rendering of both &#8220;Letter by the Water&#8221; and &#8220;Sugar Pill&#8221; into relatively forgettable additions to the first two. Both have the benefit of keeping a steady rhythm, but ultimately fail the test of monotony. The vocals behind an electric muzzle add to this negative, but this is a minor gripe for something that ultimately feels like new ground.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot to be said for adding to the synth-pop genre at a time when artists like Grimes are gaining so much attention and still pulling through with relatively original tracks. That is precisely why <em>Clean<\/em>\u00a0should be given your time. After two or three times through, something clicks and these songs become a bit of an ear worm. It will be interesting to see what else this artist puts out, and one should be encouraged to keep their ears open.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended if you like:<\/strong> <strong>The XX, The 1975, Brenmar, The Landing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks:\u00a01 (Clean), 2 (Cool Blue)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play:<\/strong> <strong>None<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Dylan Fox on 11\/21\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mysterious in how fresh it is, Clean shows promise even though there are a few kinks to be worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7465,"featured_media":39959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,4,3235,3230],"tags":[4033,3720,4032],"class_list":["post-39559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","tag-clean","tag-dylan-fox","tag-the-japanese-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ArticleSharedImage-55244-e1448394851939.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}