Hakushi Hasegawa

So why bother sanding things down, just to appease others who won’t understand anyway? Honest Feeling Album, Hasegawa’s latest record, is an ecstatic refutation of self-restriction, a rebellion against self-silencing. – The Quietus

As elements of drum & bass and noisecore clip through and morph the solo into more formidable shapes, it’s as if Hasegawa and company are creating new language for what avant-jazz can sound like in a highly digital age. – The Quietus

The 27-year-old Tokyo artist has spent nearly a decade exploding familiar sounds into alien forms, slamming frantic keyboard melodies against pulverising percussion and their own digitally warped vocals to create works that hide pop hooks beneath the musical maelstrom. – NME

Rather than relegating genre explorations to different tracks or sides of the record, Hasegawa stuffs every song until they burst . . . The music’s multitudinousness confounds expectations, embracing the disorderly and extraneous. – Pitchfork