Mei Semones - "Itsumo"
Photo by Lotus Josephine The latest single from Mei Semones started off as a Japanese CD exclusive (Does anyone else miss those as much as we do?). "Itsumo" fits perfectly with the other songs on Semones' recently released Animaru. It's a light and gorgeous song that melds jazz with indie rock in a completely delightful way. It might be because it's been too long since I've listened to the album, but "Itsumo" seems to surpass the songs we've previously heard from it. It starts off twee and kind of adorable, which is what we're used to from Semones, and then it just grows and grows into an epic and stomping indie rock song. Relatively speaking, "Itsumo" could be the heaviest song in her catalog while fitting right in with her precious releases. Mei Semones says of her latest release: “‘Itsumo’ is the first song I ever wrote and recorded on a nylon string guitar. For me the song is about learning to be strong, and the strength that mu...