In gushing over the Tokyo singer Cuushe's 2013 album, Butterfly Case, I called her the queen of sleep-pop. With her new EP, Night Lines, she still reigns. Its four tracks carry her same pillowy voice, but they're also a little tougher-sounding than her previous albums—the opener, "Tie," has an especially mean kick drum. DJs: please drop it and make the crowd go tranquil. The EP is today via Flau in Japan and Cascine everywhere else. (Full disclosure: Cascine has also released some of my own music, as Wildarms, which is admittedly worse than Cuushe.) To celebrate Night Lines, she made us this FADER mix, recorded right after doing karaoke with friends, which really couldn't be more ideal.
