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Maya Ongaku – ‘Nothing Space Music’ album review: blissful Japanese acid folk
['Tom Taylor']
Far Out Magazine
Maya Ongaku – ‘Nothing Space Music’ album review: blissful Japanese acid folkMaya Ongaku - 'Nothing Space Music' 4.5While they might have formed in the sleepy, Japanese seaside village of Enoshima in 2021, the five years that have followed have swiftly sent Maya Ongaku across the globe.
Now, onto their second album, they return to the luscious acid folk sound that they first established.
When Far Out became possibly the first Western publication to cover Maya Ongaku, it seemed certain even from the outset that their sound would evolve.
An EP made good on that promise in 2024, but two years later, Nothing Space Music sounds almost like the band returning, with refined confidence, to a time before they ever hit record.
Aguably more of a winter record, Nothing Space Music, with its wistful reinvention of ambient acid folk, feels like the most transportive record of 2026 so far, and one that welcomes endless revisits.