NAKAMURA

NAKAMURA, a co-written album by rapper Siryu and beatmaker shumax, was released on February 26.
The duo, who began their activities in their hometown of Awaji Island, released the EP "Taila" in December 2023, the EP "Avis" in December 2024, and other singles intermittently. The simple harmony of Siryu's rapping, which vividly depicts and spits out a sensitive yet sometimes throwaway and even decadent inner life, and shumax's beats, which have a peculiar quality in their restrained number of notes, has given off a kind of unique presence and energy.
On this, their first album, the energy is more forward-looking and outgoing, with Siryu's introspective lyrics featuring more specific and memorable phrases, and shumax's varied beats creating a unique drive. The strong individuality of the singer can be seen especially in "if," which describes an unstable mindset with "Maybe it's not enough, the sky I draw, which is enough, now that I'm struggling alone," and "Process," which straightforwardly reflects a depressed mindset with a Jersey Club beat.
The guest artists on this album are Silent Killer Joint, who is from the same hometown as on the previous album "Avis," and buchi, who also handled mixing and mastering for this album, all of whom are connected to the Awaji Island area. NAKAMURA," created with such life-size creativity and relationships, is a work that shows the possibility of sublimation of each person's naked inner self and its undulations into a musical expression that sometimes leaps beyond the creator's imagination.
The human mind is inherently amorphous and repeatedly tormented and perplexed. That is why this music, with its fragments laid over it, is sure to resonate. For example, to someone somewhere in solitary anguish, to that one small room.