The Japanese House at the Bristol Thekla (Jessica Bartolini for Live4ever)
The Japanese House‘s debut album has had its release date confirmed.
Amber Bain will release Good At Falling on March 1st 2019, succeeding a series of EP releases with songs that she describes as ‘more upbeat’ than those which went before. One of them, Follow My Girl, is streaming below.
“That’s inspired by playing live,” she continues. “When I wrote the EPs, in my head, I thought, this will be crazy, people will go wild. And it’s actually so different live. In your head, something can sound like a club anthem and then live, it ends up as some down, slow, sad thing.”
“I also really like playing bass, so more is inspired by fun basslines, which means fun drum parts. I do it that way around – fitting the drums to the bass, rather than the bass to the drums.”
“I’m not as happy as the music I make. Maybe there’s a sense of irony in it. I’m singing about all these really depressing things, but if you don’t listen to the lyrics, it sounds really poppy.”