Tag: music
April 7, 2024 · 0 comments
Music: Spy x Family
By Andrew Osmond. A spy, an assassin and a telepathic tot walk into a story. That’s the set-up for Spy x Family, but it’s pretty much the show’s punchline, too, repeated over and again. And we still love it. In particular, the anime’s opening and closing titles are YouTube-friendly masterworks, visions of domestic family bliss […]
December 1, 2023 · 0 comments
Yoshiki: Under the Sky
by Helen McCarthy. Classical pianist, hard rock drummer, guitarist, composer, songwriter, producer, visual kei pioneer, founder of two record labels, fashion designer, collaborator with brands from Baccarat to Hello Kitty and beyond, keynote speaker at a Stanford University conference on the future of social tech – all this, plus a 13-year partnership with a Napa […]
April 14, 2023 · 0 comments
Music: Shinkai’s Suzume
By Andrew Osmond. Makoto Shinkai’s new film Suzume hits British cinemas today, and while the import edition of the film’s vinyl soundtrack has already sold out, Anime Limited is taking pre-orders for the “international edition” already.
February 18, 2023 · 0 comments
Music: Trigun Stampede
By Andrew Osmond. Just days after the news broke that Anime Limited licensed the soundtrack to Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume, the company has announced it also has the soundtrack to Trigun Stampede. Just to clarify, this is the brand-new series now streaming on Crunchyroll, made by the CG studio Orange (Beastars, Land of the Lustrous). It’s […]
January 28, 2023 · 0 comments
Interview: Sawao Yamanaka
By Andrew Osmond. For the benefit of readers who discovered your band, the pillows, through the music on FLCL, which pillows albums would you especially recommend as a way to understand how your music has changed and evolved over the years? How about our best album Fool on the planet? I think that could be a […]