Kate NV's 'Room for the Moon' is the experimental pop record worth your attention this week. Russian artist Kate Shilonosova built 11 tracks from an unlikely source pool: Russian and Japanese pop from the 1970s and 1980s, plus children's film soundtracks.
That combination should not work. It does. The record sits in a space between playful and genuinely strange, and the seams between those influences are exactly where it gets interesting. This is not background music dressed up as art. It has a point of view.
The full piece at The Verge gets into how those specific inspirations shape the album's structure and tone, not just its aesthetic surface. That breakdown is the reason to click through.
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