Cuushe

Mayuko Hitotsuyanagi, better known by her stage name Cuushe, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer from Kyoto. She is based in Tokyo. She is one half of the duo Neon Cloud along with Geskia. Her music has been released on Flau and Cascine.

Biography Growing up in Kyoto, Cuushe spent time in Osaka before moving to Tokyo. In 2012, she released an EP, Girl You Know That I Am Here but the Dream. Her second studio album, Butterfly Case, was released in 2013. Patrick St. Michel of Pitchfork called it "a captivating collection of dream pop." In 2015, she released an EP, Night Lines. "We Can't Stop", a song from the EP, was used in the American dark comedy television series Search Party.

Style and influences In a 2012 interview with Dazed, Cuushe cited "musician friends, movies, [and] sadness" as her top 3 musical inspirations.

Colin Joyce of Pitchfork wrote, "The wispy-voiced Tokyo songwriter is nominally a dream-pop act, indulgent in the stirring static and hushed whispers that have become requisite for the genre."

Discography Studio albums Red Rocket Telepathy (2009) Butterfly Case (2013) Waken (2020)

EPs Knit (2011) Girl You Know That I Am Here but the Dream (2012) Scar (2014) Night Lines (2015)

Singles "Light" (2020)

Guest appearances Iglooghost - "Gold Coat" from Chinese Nü Yr (2015) Iglooghost - "Infinite Mint" from Neō Wax Bloom (2017) Anomie Belle - "Unwind (Cuushe Remix)" from Flux Remixed (2018)