The first song I ever made ¡ª and I¡¯m willing to wager many who graduated high school in the mid 2000s share this experience ¡ª was using Apple¡¯s GarageBand, a software application that lets people make music on their computers. ¡°I made a killer techno track last night, dude,¡± I overheard one classmate say, so off I went to the school¡¯s computer lab to fiddle around with the program. I created one ¡°song¡± that was pathetic, and surrendered my dream of being the next Daft Punk.

Tokyo Bedroom-producer i-fls, though, relies on GarageBand to capture times gone by. He¡¯s created a handful of albums and EPs using only that program. More impressively, his songs ache with a beauty that you don¡¯t necessarily expect would come from a Mac. They are simple melodies rarely lasting longer than two minutes. Yet i-fls packs a lost of wistfulness into those brief spaces. His latest, ¡°Diary of Spectre,¡± is his best yet, a collection of minimalist songs touching on the bliss and pain of certain memories.

The song titles to i-fls¡¯ music read like snapshots of suburban life ¡ª here you can find ¡°Poolside,¡± ¡°Her Singing¡± and ¡°Maki¡¯s Podcast¡± among others, though the most telling is ¡°Residential Town Loneliness.¡± The album is a collection of small-town reminiscences running from the mundane ¡ª the video-game-bleeps on ¡°Abegawa,¡± the lazy drift of ¡°Poolside¡± ¡ª to the romantic. ¡°Tamaki¡± jogs over chirpy synths, while ¡°Love Seats¡± lets the electronics swirl a bit more. The peppy ¡°Citrus Decay¡± even ends with what sounds like a voice mail, a concrete recollection.

Yet these visions are fleeting, all of them passing by as quick as they arrived. Others, still, are damaged ¡ª opener ¡°Pen Name¡± ripples like it could collapse at any second, and ¡°Proxy¡± dusts a guitar sound in reverb that makes it sound like it¡¯s fading. The artist i-fls most resembles is fellow Japanese act Lullatone, a Nagoya duo making similarly brief numbers focusing on childhood nostalgia. However, i-fls captures memories of adolescent melancholy without ever having to utter a word. Solely using GarageBand might sound strange, but it is perfect for the teenage memories he snapshots.

¡°Diary of Spectre¡± by i-fls is available via the artist¡¯s Bandcamp website: .