Romain Yamauchi is a Paris-based Japanese-French singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and creative mastermind behind the emerging electronic music project Loman. With Loman, Yamauchi, who crafts enigmatic and cinematic pop inspired by Apparat, Jon Hopkins, the poetry of Ryuichi Sakamoto and the photography of David Lynch skillfully blends melancholy pads and syncopated beats with crystalline and bewitching vocals, revealing a penchant for delicate, ethereal aesthetics.
Yamuchi’s latest Loman single, the Vhinz-produced “Start Again” pairs skittering and glitchy ,off-kilter beats with lush and gentle layers of glistening synths and brief bursts of guitar with the Paris-based artist’s plaintive, almost coo-like whisper. While sonically, reminding me a bit of Radiohead and Aurus’ impressive Chimera, “Start Again” possesses a mysterious and cinematic yet dance floor friendly air.
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