Chikiss

The enigmatic and expressive Chikiss breaks a three-year silence with Between Time and Laziness, a brand-new LP of dramatic and dreamlike synthpop perfectly suited to Hamburg’s unfaltering Bureau B. Written in St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Athens, and co-produced by Finnish multi-instrumentalist Jaakko Eino Kalevi, the album renders the existential, psychological, and philosophical in song form. Exploring motivation and self-doubt, the long shadow of the Soviet Union, and collective empathy with a cinematic flair, Chikiss weighs darkness and light, landing on the side of hope in her most considered and polished vocal album to date.

https://chikissecrets.bandcamp.com

https://www.instagram.com/chikissecrets

Saeko Killy

Japanese producer Saeko Killy returns for her second album of psychedelic electronics and drum machine workouts with “Dream In Dream” on Bureau B.

In contrast to her first LP “Morphing Polaroids”, which was a more collaborative project coming out of the pandemic, “Dream In Dream” sees Saeko Killy take the lion’s share of the controls herself. This time around she wrote and played mostly everything herself, meaning she could arrange her songs exactly how she liked, to draw out their dream-like elements.

https://saekokilly.bandcamp.com

https://www.instagram.com/saekokilly