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The EP was loosely inspired by American trumpeter Jon Hassell’s concept of ‘fourth world’ music, which brings together primitive and modern sounds, to bring forth “fantastical fictional cultures”, or imagined worlds that feel real. The three tracks are divided into past, present, and future. Opening track “The Princess and the Clock” is a peppy, 8-bit fairytale about a kidnapped protagonist who’s trapped in a castle, while “21/04/20” recounts a day in Bromley during the first lockdown: needing to go for a walk, seeing ambulances pass, scheduling in a call with a friend. Delivered in an unaffected tone, Perry’s lyrics are matter-of-fact, like a diary entry or a shopping list: “ ....
Interview International Pop Underground: In Pandemic Times, Kero Kero Bonito s Future Pop Turns Apocalyptic In their early days, English trio Kero Kero Bonito were routinely considered cute. Matching the bilingual Japanese/English lyrics of Sarah Midori Perry to bubbly, MIDI-heavy, video-game-ish production from Gus Lobban and Jamie Bulled, they made post-modernist future pop in bright, sometimes lurid colours. A lot of people will say oh, whenever I listen to Kero Kero Bonito I feel so happy! Lobban offers. That take mistakes the fact that there s always a subversive quality to their music, a darkness lurking within. KKB s latest EPs, 2019 s ....
Bandcamp / Buy Though they came up in the same scene that produced A.G. Cook, GFOTY, and Hannah Diamond, Kero Kero Bonitoâs hyperpop always had a more personal touch. On 2013âs Intro Bonito and 2016âs Bonito Generation, the London trio synthesised a nostalgic and unruly palette of influences ranging from J-pop to post-punk, creating a modern sound that paid tribute to the trioâs hometownsâthe London suburbs for producers Gus Lobban and Jamie Bulled, and Otaru, Japan, for vocalist Sarah Midori Perry. This implicit fondness for cycles of referenceâfor the way that culture compounds over time, accruing layers of influenceâmeant that KKB never affected the same tongue-in-cheek tone as their peers: For Lobban, Bulled, and Perry, music is an earnest way to celebrate and interrogate the idiosyncrasies of history. ....