I only discovered the duo sucola a few months ago. They apparently started in 2021 in Nagoya during the height of the COVID pandemic, and according to their website, vocalist-songwriter KiBi and producer yopeco opted to create a sound and words that they describe as "traveling J-Pop" which would make listeners want to take a look out the window and go off on a journey. Considering all of the lockdowns, KiBi and yopeco probably attracted a lot of sympathetic attention.
The YouTube video for their single "Sentimental Journey" came out in February earlier this year. sucola has said that their sound transcends the usual genre labels...something that at least some of the commenters agree upon. Listening to this one, I get Neo-City Pop groove and indies pop (without a lot of jangly guitar). A song about a couple slowly finding each other and realizing the need for each other in a crowded and troubled world, there is a feeling of dreaminess, helped along by KiBi's soft, caressing vocals, that can resemble the sensation of traveling on a train for hours on end while staring out the window at the speeding landscape.
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