They take their cues less from J-Pop contemporaries and much more from Western EDM, hip-hop, K-Pop and a range of associated sub-genres that blend together as the perfect storm of crass, ultra-infectious club-ready kitsch. Used as a shorthand for vocalist Reol, producer GigaP and visual designer Okiku, REOL is a pop wunderkind as accustomed to Oricon success as to engineering the benchmark for innovation this deep into mainstream territory. These are the bread and butter of most debate about music, the records which tend to hold the most value for those who consider themselves equipped with a modicum of taste.īut then there are albums like Sigma, which thrive by virtue of being the tightest collection of no-nonsense, hard-slamming bangers you could possibly have bursting through your speakers at any given moment. There are albums whose idiosyncrasies need to be sugarcoated or sensationalised in order to seem palatable, whose attraction needs unpacking for first-timers, whose mystery needs to be largely demystified in order to make sense on paper. Review Summary: Pop Megaload: Total Overkill
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