{"id":30493,"date":"2020-10-17T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T17:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/records\/crush-ep\/"},"modified":"2020-10-17T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T17:38:09","slug":"crush-ep","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/crush-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Crush EP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Born and raised in Fukuoka Prefecture, schooled in California, USA (her mom\u2019s homeland), now based in Amsterdam, Golin is Lin Suemitsu, a Japanese-American producer and singer, as well as dancer and choreographer. The latter two disciplines seem to inform the first two, as she delivers her distorted and idiosyncratic version of the exquisitely frivolous modern pop of her father\u2019s country of origin. Familiar structures fall away, or even apart, as she applies a contemporary dancer\u2019s sense of sensuality, intuition, and unpredictability to these slippery, mercurial confections. Her vocals are of particular interest\u2026 singing in both English and Japanese, she feeds her voice through Auto-Tune to emulate the uncanny artificiality of the Vocaloid app, the essential ingredient of the amateur hobby pop churned out by legions of young male urban hermits in Japan. Between these factors and a visual presence informed by anime \u2013 the warped, almost post-human physicality of it, not the silly cosplay \u2013 Golin\u2019s ersatz J-pop is celebratory and subversive at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n