This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through several layers of contemporary Japanese music culture: independent guitar music, established melodic rock, singer-songwriter pop, bilingual British-Japanese avant-pop, [...]

This edition of Distraction Therapy begins with a reassurance, although not quite a promise. In the Pet Shop Boys’ version of It’s Alright, music is [...]

This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese pop, rock, film music and orchestral arrangement as though following a river from daylight into dusk. The [...]

Some mixtapes establish their meaning through genre. Others work through atmosphere, juxtaposition and emotional association. This edition of Distraction Therapy belongs to the second kind. [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese pop, rock, electronic music and soundtrack composition. It is not intended as a comprehensive account of Japanese music. [...]

What does it mean to use music as distraction? Does it take us away from immediate experience, or can it return us to the body, to [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese rock, electronic pop, dance music and independent digital production. Across the mix, familiar images return. Love. Silence. Distance. [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that exists between states. Between ambient suspension and rhythmic momentum. Between private memory and collective history. Between natural [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through a vivid field of contemporary Japanese pop, rock, hip-hop and electronic songcraft. The mix is bright, precise and [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that seems to arrive from elsewhere. Some of it feels as if it has been transmitted across [...]