Monthly Listening: October 2022

This month's round-up of great new Japanese releases from Sandal Telephone, TENDRE, Nervous Light of Sunday and more

Hi! This is October’s Monthly Listening list, a quick rundown of new Japanese albums I checked out this month that I enjoyed. You can browse past Monthly Listenings in the archives.

I realize I didn’t really run down the plans as far as scheduled issues for This Side of Japan go for the rest of the year. I also did not tell you that I took a week off from writing to celebrate my birthday—very relaxing week, thank you for asking!—which put This Side of Japan on hold for a very brief time. With that in mind, there is one more issue still in production, which for now is scheduled for to be out November 16. It’ll be a flipped issue covering older music. And after that, it’s just year-end stuff to work on. We are close to the end! But before that, here are albums I enjoyed during October. And of course, here is a top 40 playlist of songs I liked from the month.

AFJB by AFJB

punk / hip hop | ► “DENGEKI” ft. kZm

CUE-SAI by Batten Shoujotai

pop / idol | ► “Kou No Minato”

So wet boys by HEAVEN

hip hop / hyperpop | ► “morita”

into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never by Keiji Haino + SUMAC

metal | ► “A shredded coiled cable within this cable sincerity could not be contained”

Helheim by Loota, Brodinski & Modulaw

rap / hip hop | ► “The Light” ft. Gliiico

Personality Formation by Nervous Light of Sunday

post-hardcore | ► “HOW IT OUGHT TO BE”

Peace 2022 EP by Phenotas

pop / idol | ► “Peace”

Blizzard Style Core by PRESS ON AHEAD

hardcore punk | ► “ETERNAL TONE”

REFLEX by SANDAL TELEPHONE

pop / idol | ► “Koi No Mahoutsukai Ni Wa Narenai”

PRISMATICS by TENDRE

R&B | ► “HAVE A NICE DAY”

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