Looking back, it’s hard to believe that the biggest talking point about Amber Bain when she started making music as The Japanese House was that she hadn’t given away enough information. At the beginning, the Buckinghamshire singer-producer’s real name was kept under wraps and there were no pictures of her face.
The fact that she was signed to The 1975’s record label, Dirty Hit, and traded in a similar mix of clean indie guitars and plush digital sounds, with layered, electronically polished vocal harmonies, led to speculation that this was a secret side project by the bigger band’s Matty Healy.
