Time ‘n’ Place

Kero Kero Bonito, “Time ‘n’ Place” (Polyvinyl, 2018)
Sarah is the singer of this UK group and is the daughter of a Japanese mother and British father, and while her life experience could just as well have resulted in a deep commitment to Delta blues or Flamenco, in this case she’s created a delightfully bright and snappy concoction of J-pop and C86-style UK twee, all filtered through bedroom-Casio minimalism. The sound has filled out (and gotten noisier) on this second album, but the songs are just as bewitchingly happy-melancholy (or melancholy-happy) and kaleidoscopically colorful as before.
Try 3, 4, 6
4/7/19