“Postcard From Tokyo” By Puma Blue
UK artist, Puma Blue shares the track “Postcard From Tokyo” and an official video, taken from the forthcoming Deluxe Edition of In Praise of Shadows, due out November 5th. The Deluxe Edition is completed by two new bedroom studio recordings, the previously released “All I Need” (a Radiohead cover) perfectly extending the album’s small hours spirit and “Postcard from Tokyo.” The song explores explores loneliness with brutal honesty and a sparse acoustic atmosphere. The track feels like a departure from reality— transcendent, dissonant, and peaceful. Puma Blue released his debut LP In Praise of Shadows in 2021.
On the song, Jacob shares:
“‘Postcard From Tokyo’ was one of the first songs I wrote for In Praise of Shadows, and although it didn’t fit onto the album in the end, it’s a very special song to me. I was trying to make something reflective of a particular time I was going through after our first trip out to Japan in the autumn of 2018, creating a dissonant texture with filtered windchimes underneath this Johnny Cash inspired thing I’d written. It became a song about encountering loneliness and feeling lost in the midst of growing up.”
Puma Blue
Live Dates
NOVEMBER 2021
4th – Santa Ana CA – Constellation Room
5th – Los Angeles CA – El Rey Theatre
6th – San Francisco CA – The Independent
8th – Portland OR – Doug Fir Lounge
9th – Seattle WA – The Vera Project
12th – Minneapolis MN – Fine Line
13th – Chicago IL – Lincoln Hall
14th – Detroit MI – El Club
16th – Toronto ON – Horseshoe Tavern
18th – Brooklyn NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
19th – Philadelphia PA – Johnny Brenda’s
20th – Washington DC – Miracle Theatre
22nd – Nashville TN – Mercy Lounge
23rd – Atlanta GA – The Masquerade (Purgatory)
FEBRUARY 2022
13th – Copenhagen DK – Ideal Bar
14th – Hamburg DE – Turmzimmer
16th – Berlin DE – Kantine am Berghain
17th – Cologne DE – JAKI
18th – Brussels BE – AB Club
20th – Amsterdam NL – Melkweg UP
21st – Paris FR – Boule Noire
24th – Glasgow UK – King Tuts
25th – Leeds UK – Belgrave Music Hall
26th – Manchester UK – Gorilla
27th – Nottingham UK – Bodega
MARCH 2022
1st – Bristol UK – Thekla
2nd – Brighton UK – Chalk
3rd – London UK – Brixton Electric
5th – Dublin IE – Grand Social
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