Sasami - Squeeze Artist_Haruka Nakamura 中村遼 transgressive life on the margins

transgressive life on the margins shot through with evocations of sex and violence

witchy and precisely musical composed

Last spring

and an offer to appear at the prestigious Fuji Rock Festival in 2016 has been swiftly followed by the band opening for international artists including James Blake and Floating Points in Japan

amass a seemingly unending rap sheet of stellar session work and a pair of Wu-Tang-focused cover records which took big band hip-hop worship to new levels

Sasami - Squeeze Artist_Haruka Nakamura 中村遼 transgressive life on the marginsSqueeze, the second full length from Sasami, surveys the raw aggression of nu metal, tender plainspokenness of country pop and folk rock, and dramatic romanticism of classical music.