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“The records Flau releases are sonically quite diverse, from acoustic folk to dream pop and complex drum experiments. And though eclectic, never before has a label’s oeuvre come together to so closely sound the way a cherry blossom looks.” – The FADER

“Tokyo’s Flau label is one of the biggest names in the world of really small sounds: its discography teems with recordings that blend field recordings, electronica and more traditional instrumentation to create some awesomely lovely headphone music ? the perfect soundtrack to a Sunday evening”
– Timeout Tokyo

“Flau has shown that sometimes silence beats flashiness” – METROPOLIS Magazine

“flau seem to have a magic touch; everything they put out..has a celestial, positively glowing aura about it that has us longing for more..sonically the label is incredibly diverse, but what its releases share in common are a playful curiosity, an unmatchable quality and a genre-bending commitment to evoking time and space within their sounds“ – DUMMY

“Japan’s Flau label casts its net across a worldwide community of artists with a particular affection for fragile arrangements and microscopic songwriting…A reliable resource for all the finest, quirkiest exploratory electronic pop music” – Boomkat

“it combines genuine emotion with a sense of playfulness” – Fluid Radio

“Flau is everyone’s favourite Japanese label and, of course, we make no exception” – Going Solo

“constantly surprising, consistently stunning Japanese label” – Dummy

“un monde de l’infiniment fragile et doux.” – Ondefixe

“one of our favourite labels” – Textura

“Flau are one of those unassuming labels, which since 2007 have been quietly making their way in the world releasing a diverse range of high quality albums. Based in Tokyo, their roster of international artists blend field recordings, acoustic instruments, microsounds, and voice, in a sound that has become truly synonymous with the label” – Furthernoise

“flau is a small (but growing) label based in Tokyo…easy to miss, but this label are worth finding” – Foxy Digitalis

“An inner experience and pure fascination to little things concept and microscopic sounds. FLAU is the latest Label Of The Moment” – Otsechka

“the Tokyo label’s dreamy and cinematic aesthetic seems tailor-made for two favourite hobbies: idleness and letting the imagination run wild”
– Solar Flares

“This label collects very particular artists from all over the world all under one roof that eclectically holds them together. Each artist is so unique, that you would like to read a whole book about them” – PonyDanceClyde