Romancing the Music [LP]

Hip-See-Kid - Romancing the Music [LP]

On Romancing The Music, Hip-See-Kid reanimates Japanese New Wave as a jittery, neon‑lit fever dream: punk‑funk basslines, soul‑scarred melodies and splashy jazz inflections squeezed into a compact mini‑LP that feels like a lost 80s club classic beamed into the present.

Romancing The Music introduces Hip-See-Kid as if they’d been hiding in a dust‑choked Shinjuku back room since 1981, quietly perfecting a sound that now lands fully formed. Produced under the guidance of jazz‑leaning New Wave minds (the project’s roots lie in a “jazzy new wave” vision associated with Kitayama Waka and Ken Yamazaki), the record plays like a delayed transmission from that parallel history, refracted through contemporary ears. Issued by Mawaru Recording as catalogue number MAW001, this mini‑LP arrives in multiple coloured‑vinyl configurations, but its real saturation is in the grooves: wiry guitar, elastic bass, nervy drums and synth flashes converging around songs that balance jagged edges with a sly, romantic undercurrent.