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23 mei 2019

Some R&B ear candy from Japan by iri

 

 

Another song for our Summer Mixtape! This pretty young thang calls herself iri (in lowercase, Japanese artists like to mess around with capitals and lowercase in their pseudonyms, I notice) and she hails from Zushi, Kanagawa.

24 years old, she taught herself to play the guitar when she was in highschool, won some audition contest, brought out an album in 2016 the first single of which was chosen as the Nike Women’s campaign song.

This last March she released her third album, Shade, which you can enjoy on Spotify.

Nothing revolutionary, just well made, relaxing ear candy, I think. Iri sings in that almost emotionless low voice that is popular amongst many young female singers, like Lorde, which gives her tunes a melancholic, acquiesced feel. (PB)

Music, Peter's Summer Mixtape