Something Small and Permanent

Some songs arrive in December and just stay there. Just A Boy by Pikachunes has that quality—quiet electronics, a voice pitched somewhere between confession and resignation, the kind of track that sounds better past midnight than it has any right to. The name alone reads like a found object from a specific moment in internet culture, circa 2010, when music blogs were still how you heard anything new and artists like this could exist in that narrow corridor between cult obscurity and a wider audience that was always just about to find them and usually didn’t.