The Faintest Hint
Ai Aso
The Faintest Hint
Boomkat Product Review:
Cult Japanese singer-songwriter's stark, tear-jerking 2020 album 'The Faintest Hint' is available once more! This is a good one: glacially paced and whisper quiet, it's slowcore taken to its logical extreme.
Featuring contributions from Japanese metal heroes Boris and Stephen O'Malley, who incidentally released 'The Faintest Hint' on his Ideologic Organ imprint, you'd expect this album to be a lot more thunderous. But Ai's power lies in her ability to work at a snail's pace, teasing riffs and strums into long, resonant drones and vocal lines into delicate, annunciated cries. It's extreme music in a sense - extreme minimalism that doggedly resists the temptation to erupt into something more ferocious.
Ai's voice is hauntingly beautiful, and although her instrumentation is relatively traditional, its speed is so slow that the spaces between the notes seem to breathe, with faint reverberations melting into the silence. 'The Faintest Hint' is minimalist pop that has close relations - it reminds us of Empress or, more recently Annelies Monsere - but it's rare to hear something so focused and so utterly still. Even on 'I'll Do it My Way', when she introduces a drum beat, it barely pokes past the strangulated silence. Remarkable stuff.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Cult Japanese singer-songwriter's stark, tear-jerking 2020 album 'The Faintest Hint' is available once more! This is a good one: glacially paced and whisper quiet, it's slowcore taken to its logical extreme.
Featuring contributions from Japanese metal heroes Boris and Stephen O'Malley, who incidentally released 'The Faintest Hint' on his Ideologic Organ imprint, you'd expect this album to be a lot more thunderous. But Ai's power lies in her ability to work at a snail's pace, teasing riffs and strums into long, resonant drones and vocal lines into delicate, annunciated cries. It's extreme music in a sense - extreme minimalism that doggedly resists the temptation to erupt into something more ferocious.
Ai's voice is hauntingly beautiful, and although her instrumentation is relatively traditional, its speed is so slow that the spaces between the notes seem to breathe, with faint reverberations melting into the silence. 'The Faintest Hint' is minimalist pop that has close relations - it reminds us of Empress or, more recently Annelies Monsere - but it's rare to hear something so focused and so utterly still. Even on 'I'll Do it My Way', when she introduces a drum beat, it barely pokes past the strangulated silence. Remarkable stuff.
Boomkat Product Review:
Cult Japanese singer-songwriter's stark, tear-jerking 2020 album 'The Faintest Hint' is available once more! This is a good one: glacially paced and whisper quiet, it's slowcore taken to its logical extreme.
Featuring contributions from Japanese metal heroes Boris and Stephen O'Malley, who incidentally released 'The Faintest Hint' on his Ideologic Organ imprint, you'd expect this album to be a lot more thunderous. But Ai's power lies in her ability to work at a snail's pace, teasing riffs and strums into long, resonant drones and vocal lines into delicate, annunciated cries. It's extreme music in a sense - extreme minimalism that doggedly resists the temptation to erupt into something more ferocious.
Ai's voice is hauntingly beautiful, and although her instrumentation is relatively traditional, its speed is so slow that the spaces between the notes seem to breathe, with faint reverberations melting into the silence. 'The Faintest Hint' is minimalist pop that has close relations - it reminds us of Empress or, more recently Annelies Monsere - but it's rare to hear something so focused and so utterly still. Even on 'I'll Do it My Way', when she introduces a drum beat, it barely pokes past the strangulated silence. Remarkable stuff.
Boomkat Product Review:
Cult Japanese singer-songwriter's stark, tear-jerking 2020 album 'The Faintest Hint' is available once more! This is a good one: glacially paced and whisper quiet, it's slowcore taken to its logical extreme.
Featuring contributions from Japanese metal heroes Boris and Stephen O'Malley, who incidentally released 'The Faintest Hint' on his Ideologic Organ imprint, you'd expect this album to be a lot more thunderous. But Ai's power lies in her ability to work at a snail's pace, teasing riffs and strums into long, resonant drones and vocal lines into delicate, annunciated cries. It's extreme music in a sense - extreme minimalism that doggedly resists the temptation to erupt into something more ferocious.
Ai's voice is hauntingly beautiful, and although her instrumentation is relatively traditional, its speed is so slow that the spaces between the notes seem to breathe, with faint reverberations melting into the silence. 'The Faintest Hint' is minimalist pop that has close relations - it reminds us of Empress or, more recently Annelies Monsere - but it's rare to hear something so focused and so utterly still. Even on 'I'll Do it My Way', when she introduces a drum beat, it barely pokes past the strangulated silence. Remarkable stuff.
Limited edition 2024 re-press. Initial copies include a bonus 7" featuring recordings from a rehearsal demo.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Cult Japanese singer-songwriter's stark, tear-jerking 2020 album 'The Faintest Hint' is available once more! This is a good one: glacially paced and whisper quiet, it's slowcore taken to its logical extreme.
Featuring contributions from Japanese metal heroes Boris and Stephen O'Malley, who incidentally released 'The Faintest Hint' on his Ideologic Organ imprint, you'd expect this album to be a lot more thunderous. But Ai's power lies in her ability to work at a snail's pace, teasing riffs and strums into long, resonant drones and vocal lines into delicate, annunciated cries. It's extreme music in a sense - extreme minimalism that doggedly resists the temptation to erupt into something more ferocious.
Ai's voice is hauntingly beautiful, and although her instrumentation is relatively traditional, its speed is so slow that the spaces between the notes seem to breathe, with faint reverberations melting into the silence. 'The Faintest Hint' is minimalist pop that has close relations - it reminds us of Empress or, more recently Annelies Monsere - but it's rare to hear something so focused and so utterly still. Even on 'I'll Do it My Way', when she introduces a drum beat, it barely pokes past the strangulated silence. Remarkable stuff.
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