Ama Moii is a singer-songwriter based in Tokyo who uses a combination of acoustic guitars, keyboards, toy instruments and field recordings to make a gentle bedroom pop/ambient hybrid.
Whereas most dream pop is dreamy in the sense of those illogical, immensely meaningful sequences familiar to films and novels, Ama Moii’s new album Flown is more reminiscent of the everyday dreams you don’t bother to share. ‘Your Shoes’ sets the tone, a delicate track centred around hushed vocals and simple lyrics, like an Appalachian folk song rewritten to help children sleep, and ‘Snow Bird’ is equally soft, sounding like something by Mountain Man if the band were only allowed to whisper.
“Snow bird
come back to my home.
I’m waiting for you”
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‘Lemon’ is a frivolous contemplation of the fruit that could only occur in a daydream during the most boring of afternoons, while ‘She Greeted the Cloud’ plays like a fable with an obscure message. ‘If You Want To Go’ brings to mind a lullaby cover of Andy Shauf, and ‘Wind’ is a gentle instrumental track, playing like a breeze through neighbourhood. The lullaby theme returns on the final track ‘Night Melody’,
“It’s time to go to sleep
laying on bed in the closet”
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You can buy Flown now from Bandcamp on a pay-what-you-can basis.