FLAU is a record label and event organize based in Tokyo, Japan, was founded in December 2006. curated by yasuhiko fukuzono aka aus. flau has released many artists like Henning Schmiedt, Ulises Conti, Fabio Caramuru, Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, Submerse, Cuushe, Cokiyu, Noah, Ikebana, Crystal, Masayoshi Fujita, Danny Norbury, Jefre-Cantu Ledesma, The Boats, Motoro Faam, aus and more… flau selected as one of the NEW SOUNDS OF BEST LABELS for 2013 by The FADER Magazine.
2006年に設立された東京発のレコード・レーベル。国籍やジャンルの枠に留まらないオルタナティブな音楽性と個性溢れる作品を数多く発表。これまでに東京、ロンドン、メルボルン、ベルリン、北京などでレーベル・ショーケースが実現し、いずれも好評を博している。リリースした諸作品はガーディアン紙を筆頭にPitchfork、Mojo、Q Magazine、WIRE、Mixmag、XLR8R、Dummy Magなどで取り上げられ、レーベルはJAPAN TIMES、Dazed And Confusedにて特集されるなど注目を浴びる。アメリカのカルチャーマガジンThe FADERが2013年最も注目すべきレーベルの一つとして選出。
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CAT No. FLAU36
Release Date: Japan - September 11th / Overseas - September 23rd 2013
Format: CD/Digital/LP
“Butterfly Case” is Cuushe’s brand new breath-taking 2nd full length album, coming four years after her beautiful debut “Red Rocket Telepathy” and the subsequent “Girl You Know That I Am Here But The Dream” EP.
While Cuushe’s debut album put more focus on field recordings and found sounds, in “Butterfly Case”, you can see her moving graciously from her dreams into reality, expressing herself with delicate analog tape, distorted synths, drum machines, looped guitars and her signature feathery vocals. This wonderful album is co-produced by flau label mastermind aus, with Geskia at the mastering helm. These astonishing new songs allow us see a new vision, an imagination from Cuushe that we’ve never seen before.
The balearic guitar-house track “I Love You”, which is one of the most popular tracks from the album, has already been receiving raving reviews from the press both in Japan and overseas, while the ambient-ish R&B take in “Hanabi” is a wonderful reminiscent of Cocteau Twins & early 4AD meet soul music. Cuushe’s uniquely beautiful voice, and the delicately beat-driven music that was masterfully produced in “Butterfly Case”, has undoubtedly unfolded a new exciting dimension in dream pop music. by Tim McGregor & Wei Yuen, mu-nest.
昨年リリースしたEPがガーディアン、Dazed and Confusedなど海外の主要メディアでいち早く紹介され、瞬く間に完売。Kisses, Chad Valley, Keep Shelly in Athensらを擁する人気レーベルCASCINEのオーナーがYoursTrulyにてCuusheへのラブレターを公開するなど海外レーベル／ブログから大注目を集める中、４年ぶりとなるニューアルバムがついに完成しました。
先行公開され話題を呼んだバレアリック・ギター・ハウスI Love You、リリースを熱望されていたダウンテンポHanabiなど、ゆらめくピアノとギターのストローク、アナログ・シンセサイザー、繊細なコーラスが幾重にも折り重なり、空間に歪む独特の漂う音像は、より強度を増して、私たちを夢の世界へと誘います。
シンセポップ、シューゲイザー、アンビエントR&B、チルウェイブ、インディ・ディスコといったシーンのキーワードと耽美な歌世界を抜群のポップネスで鮮やかに結びつけ、儚さと強さを併せ持った歌声でドリームポップの新しい地平をも提示した新作です。
アートワークを公開初日で25000viewを記録、今年のベスト・ミュージック・ビデオとの呼び声高いアニメーションMV、Airy Meを製作した久野遥子が担当。
可愛くもどこかストレンジな感性でCuusheの魅力を引き立てています。
”Cuusheはこういった音楽をネクストレベルまで持って行っているとどこかで読んだが、彼女はそれ以上だ。彼女の作る音楽には究極の何かがある” – Guardian
”Cuusheは波打ち際の海岸のようなエレクトロメランコリアに僕らを誘う。これ以上無く美しい” – Dazed and Confused
PRETTIEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR – The FADER
Cuushe’s siren call glittering across this softly undulating fabricn – Dazed and Confused (album of the month!)
No.25 of Gorilla Vs. Bear’s Album 2013
She’s at her best, though, when her singing manages to break through the dreaminess and deliver a simple and direct emotion – Pitchfork (7.0)
it’s the sort of thing you’d imagine playing over a dreamy Sofia Coppola montage of girls running through a field or Elle Fanning pirouetting on ice – NYLON Magazine
Cuushe’s unique, beautiful voice and ethereal, beat driven music truly offers a new dimension in dream pop – Fredperry Subculture
More sun gaze than shoe gaze, and more Washed Out than Cocteau Twins. Celestial, perfectly executed, mesmerizing. – Bandcamp
I Love You have a sturdy J-pop aesthetic hiding deep under all the ambient smoke and vapors. I Miss You taps into Julianna Barwick’s school of choral tapestry…If you find yourself locked in midnight-hour sleeplessness any time soon, get immersed in ‘Butterfly Case’: it’ll work a dream. – DUMMY
Cuushe offers an entrancing blend of vintage dream pop, Morr Music-like post-rock and glitch, and the sort of R&B that pours out of stay-at-home sensualists like How to Dress Well – SPIN Magazine
Sounding like a narcotized version of My Bloody Valentine fronted by Cocteau Twins chanteuse Elizabeth Fraser – BeatsPerMinutes
This is dream-pop at its most luxurious, and at times inventive…everything seems golden – The 405
Butterfly Case’ straight to analog tape proved to be a wise one, lending the sensuous production a feeling of lived-in earthiness – Diffuser.FM
you can tell from the multileveled pop delight, that its covering several geographical zones, all dreamy, starry-eyed, and floating above the atmosphere. – IMPOSE Magazine
Unrelentingly pretty and carrying the picture-perfect poise of a high-wire acrobat, it was a gorgeous blend of subdued synths and heart-in-throat vocals.– GoldFlakePaint
It’s ten tracks of lighter-than-pixie-dust pop, rich in plaintive atmospherics and gossamer textures – Planet Notion
Super-vibey dreampop cut with psychedelic electronic blips and gloopy vocals is a combo pretty much off limits to anyone apart from Claire Boucher, but that hasn’t stopped emerging artists from trying in their droves. – The Line Of Best Fit
I am captivated by her voice, such a light delight…like fragile butterflies resting on a silky scarf – Stereofox
Un album che immerge l’ascoltatore in un universo estetico delicato ed evoca atmosfere dreamy, in bilico tra Cocteau Twins e i primi Everything But The Girl,– Pig Mag (weekly favorite)
it’s the melody and Cuushe’s voice that raises it to another level. When Goldfrapp are at their most chilled out they’re still not quite as horizontal as Cuushe. – Echoes and Dust
She’s got a really beautiful aesthetic, backing her breathy, wistful vocals with warm swathes of soft synthpop and distant, indistinct shoegazey crunch – Norman Records
CAT No. FLAU36
Release Date: Japan - September 11th / Overseas - September 23rd 2013
Format: CD/Digital/LP
“Butterfly Case” is Cuushe’s brand new breath-taking 2nd full length album, coming four years after her beautiful debut “Red Rocket Telepathy” and the subsequent “Girl You Know That I Am Here But The Dream” EP.
While Cuushe’s debut album put more focus on field recordings and found sounds, in “Butterfly Case”, you can see her moving graciously from her dreams into reality, expressing herself with delicate analog tape, distorted synths, drum machines, looped guitars and her signature feathery vocals. This wonderful album is co-produced by flau label mastermind aus, with Geskia at the mastering helm. These astonishing new songs allow us see a new vision, an imagination from Cuushe that we’ve never seen before.
The balearic guitar-house track “I Love You”, which is one of the most popular tracks from the album, has already been receiving raving reviews from the press both in Japan and overseas, while the ambient-ish R&B take in “Hanabi” is a wonderful reminiscent of Cocteau Twins & early 4AD meet soul music. Cuushe’s uniquely beautiful voice, and the delicately beat-driven music that was masterfully produced in “Butterfly Case”, has undoubtedly unfolded a new exciting dimension in dream pop music. by Tim McGregor & Wei Yuen, mu-nest.
昨年リリースしたEPがガーディアン、Dazed and Confusedなど海外の主要メディアでいち早く紹介され、瞬く間に完売。Kisses, Chad Valley, Keep Shelly in Athensらを擁する人気レーベルCASCINEのオーナーがYoursTrulyにてCuusheへのラブレターを公開するなど海外レーベル／ブログから大注目を集める中、４年ぶりとなるニューアルバムがついに完成しました。
先行公開され話題を呼んだバレアリック・ギター・ハウスI Love You、リリースを熱望されていたダウンテンポHanabiなど、ゆらめくピアノとギターのストローク、アナログ・シンセサイザー、繊細なコーラスが幾重にも折り重なり、空間に歪む独特の漂う音像は、より強度を増して、私たちを夢の世界へと誘います。
シンセポップ、シューゲイザー、アンビエントR&B、チルウェイブ、インディ・ディスコといったシーンのキーワードと耽美な歌世界を抜群のポップネスで鮮やかに結びつけ、儚さと強さを併せ持った歌声でドリームポップの新しい地平をも提示した新作です。
アートワークを公開初日で25000viewを記録、今年のベスト・ミュージック・ビデオとの呼び声高いアニメーションMV、Airy Meを製作した久野遥子が担当。
可愛くもどこかストレンジな感性でCuusheの魅力を引き立てています。
”Cuusheはこういった音楽をネクストレベルまで持って行っているとどこかで読んだが、彼女はそれ以上だ。彼女の作る音楽には究極の何かがある” – Guardian
”Cuusheは波打ち際の海岸のようなエレクトロメランコリアに僕らを誘う。これ以上無く美しい” – Dazed and Confused
