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01. MESO MESO - Alice
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02. MESO MESO - Danro
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03. MESO MESO - Night River
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04. MESO MESO - Frost
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05. MESO MESO - Locomotive
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06. MESO MESO - Stroke
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07. MESO MESO - Pola
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08. MESO MESO - Kira Kira
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ARTIST
MESO MESO
TITLE
Mitten
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
LACIES
CATALOG #
LACIES 001CD
LACIES 001CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
8/18/2009
Originally released in 2008. Equally indebted to the progressive J-pop of
Piana
and the sonic template set out by
Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir
-era
múm
,
Meso Meso
is the solo project of a young lady from Tokyo named
Yumiko
, a musician whose whispered songcraft is unassuming to the point of outright shyness, occasionally occupying the same terrifyingly twee musical no-fly zone as the likes of
Lullatone
. Musically, Meso Meso's universe is inhabited by glockenspiels, accordion, melodica and toy pianos, all skillfully-arranged around her bashfully quiet vocals. At times, her voice sounds as if it's been recorded in the middle of a nap, particularly on second track "Danro," a musical sleepwalk led by gorgeously plodding acoustic guitar, but ultimately characterized by that implausibly delicate singing voice. Even at its most boisterous,
Mitten
is the very embodiment of understatement, jangling mellifluously through the melange of sampled recordings and bric-a-brac that makes up the opening cut "Alice," which comes as close to conventional pop music as any of the other charmingly shambolic meanderings on this beguiling album. Really quite adorable music that offsets over-preciousness with an undercurrent of secret, eccentric soulfulness.
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