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One Touch

Golin

2023

One Touch

Release Date:  2023

By Pitchfork

Reviewed January 29, 2023

The J-pop artist’s new single, released on Year0001’s Rift Two compilation, evokes the pixie-like pop of Ecco2k’s PXE EP and Grimes’ Art Angels.

The pop artist Rin Suemitsu—or Golin—was born in Tagawa, Japan, emigrated to the US as a child, and is currently based in Amsterdam; her latest song, “One Touch,” feels fittingly transcontinental, nodding to the sleek, anodized aesthetic of J-pop as well as rave music and European big-tent EDM. Released on the latest compilation from Drain Gang label YEAR0001, it’s a classic breakup song that shares DNA with Ecco2k’s great PXE EP and Grimes’ Art Angels. Over a walloping techno pulse, Golin sings in Japanese of self-determination and uncertainty— “I want to hold you close/I won’t forgive you/Do you understand?”—her voice stinging and vaporous like a musical tear gas. The song races by in less than three minutes, and its breakneck speed gives the whole thing a scorched-earth intensity. One line is sung in English—“You fucked me over”—and it anchors the song’s emotional core even if you can’t parse the rest of it: Golin was wronged, and this is her coming to collect.

7:00 PM · Jan 29, 2023