Intro – Album Overview

Slumber Thief is an official Phantom Tone album released under the Japanese Folklore Hip-Hop genre.
This album explores sleep, dream intrusion, and nocturnal spiritual theft — forming a ritual sound architecture that operates within the boundary between consciousness and dream.

Rather than telling a single narrative, Slumber Thief unfolds as a sequence of dream-ritual fragments — each track capturing a moment where memory, fear, and comfort intermingle.

Concept & Folklore Origin

Slumber Thief draws from Japanese folklore motifs of dream-walking yōkai, sleep paralysis spirits, and nocturnal visitations.
These entities are believed to extract memory fragments, breath, or emotional residue from sleeping humans.

The album interprets these beings as “sleep phantoms” — psychological and spiritual archetypes that govern unconscious emotional cycles.

Music Architecture

The sound architecture emphasizes slow to mid-tempo grooves, deep sub-bass drones, and whisper-like vocal layers.
Band instruments and wagakki textures are layered to form floating ritual soundscapes rather than rhythm-driven dance structures.

Melodic repetition functions as hypnotic induction rather than melodic storytelling.

Tracklist

  1. Slumber Thief
  2. nue
  3. Daughter of the Cat Demon
  4. Between Oni and Wolf
  5. The Last Name
  6. Tengu the wings
  7. Phantom Belly Rhyme
  8. Drowncall
  9. CopperKappar
  10. Yasha Pulse

Official Streaming

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@konkonsama
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/artist/4bfn9UXzrHfylOk7gZCB4j
Apple Music https://music.apple.com/jp/artist/phantom-tone/1845267127