Yoko Kanno x POP ETC — stereogum.com

Jan 12th '15 by Tom Breihan @ 3:16pm1 Comment POP ETC, the entity formerly known as the Morning Benders, ended a bit of a prolonged silence earlier this month, when they released the shimmering “Running In Circles,” our first taste of an unannounced new album. Today, they’ve got a new song for us: “ís,” a soft and still little melodic meditation. On the track, the group pairs up with Yoko Kanno, a Japanese film-score composer best-known for her work in anime. It’s a lovely song, one that suggests the ingredient POP ETC were missing was help from the person who wrote the Cowboy Bebop score. Listen to the song below.

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