“Tension is central to the songs Garrett Yim creates. The Orange County artist started as a confrontational noise artist, but eventually adopted the name Meishi Smile and embraced dreamier sounds, channeling the likes of the Radio Dept. and Japanese pop producer Yasutaka Nakata. Despite this shift, Yim's art makes space for a sense of unease, of something lost in communication. On 2014's Lust, he o”
