Various Artists : Bird Cage: Birdfriend Archives*very sick comp of new Japanese music selected by a Japanese person, released on a Japanese label*Enter a world unknown! Birdfriend is a cassette label run by Japanese musician composer Koshiro Hino, aka YPY, who is also a founding member of the Osaka band goat. This compilation, available on CD and double vinyl, features 18 tracks by Japanese artists, from 2013 2017, previously available only on hard to find cassettes on the Birdfriend label, now

John's Glass Eye - Iron and Wine

Harvest Love - Tash Sultana

Raise - Fuzz

Murals - Various Performers (8

Nat's vocals have been extracted and restored from the original recordings on all tracks

Heart Shaped Face - Angel Olsen (5

Always Ascending - Franz Ferdinand18

The Image of Black Me - Yoko Takahashi & Megumi Hayashibara

To Wait for Love (Is to Waste Your Life Away) - Tom Jones

Rock & Roll Found Me - Eric Church

Keep On Lovin' Me - Joanne Shaw Taylor

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