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pearlwool
Her new album is all right, but the instrumental tracks are a lot stronger than the tracks with guest features. In my opinion, being a diet pop/EDM producer doesn't really work out. Instead of creating strong beats which are complemented by vocals, the production takes a backseat and ends up lacking personality and bite. It sticks around like a wallflower at a house party, without making any kind of impression. None of the songs are terrible, but none of them are really memorable, either. She's a great producer, but her last couple of albums have fallen a little bit short.
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pearlwool
Personally, my favorite album of hers is Midnight Menu, but there are good songs in all of her albums. If you're interested in branching out, I would start with Half Shadows, as that album really showcases both styles of her music. Depending on what songs you liked, there are two ways you could go. If you enjoy the beats more, then I would suggest Desiderium and Midnight Menu, and then her three solo EPs and collaborative EP with Mike Gao. In my opinion, Tokimonsta's best work lies here. She started off as an L.A. area beatmaker, similar to artists like Flying Lotus and Madlib. These L.A. beatmakers are all heavily inspired by hip hop music, but Tokimonsta isn't strictly an instrumental hip hop producer. She incorporates a lot of electronic music genres like wonky, glitch hop, and downtempo into her music. Overall, it's not something you can dance to at a club, but it's interesting nonetheless.
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pearlwool
If you like the poppier songs more, then listen to Fovere and her collaborations with musicians like Gavin Turek. These albums aren't necessarily bad, but like I said in my first reply, the production is limited by the vocals; so my impression is that there isn't a lot of room for exploration or progression. Not every song needs that, and her work with Gavin Turek is a great example of it, but I still feel that she produces her best work solo. In the end, her music has something for everyone, so I am sure that if you liked Lune Rouge, you will like at least one or two other albums she worked on.
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chamoise
sorry to necro, but she was actually diagnosed with a rare disease (moyamoya) that completely altered her brain. she was unable to make music at all for a while—literally forgot how to compose and produce. lune rouge was the first thing she put out after she got her surgeries for the disease, so it sounds very different for a reason.
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tropicalhaze
And now they called her music "iPhone-advert-core" in the Grammys 2019 article haha, oh how the tables have turned
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ruda_kulka
I've found her thanks to this preposterous 'japanese' tag, so I'm not even that mad.
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IntroVertedMind
LOL @ninetythreeTIL dude she's Korean-American and she's from SoCal not Japan
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ninetythreeTIL
I wanna visit Japan so I can make her my waifu and listen to j-pop all day desu ^_^
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