Ono Kimono: 'Sexy Creep' and the Alternate Timeline

Some records sound like they were beamed in from a radio station that never existed. Ono Kimono, the solo project of Las Vegas multi-instrumentalist and producer Justin Roll, describes his own music as pop from an alternate timeline between 1977 and 1993, and "Sexy Creep" makes the case in four minutes and twenty-one seconds: a dark psych-funk groove, built on a TASCAM Portastudio 414 with an MXR talk box in the chain, about being pursued by a predatory woman.

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Roll started the project during lockdown, playing every instrument himself, and released his first singles in 2022, starting with "Fever Dream" and "Malibu." A self-titled EP followed in July 2024, the project grew into a full live band in 2025, and on August 21, 2026 he released the full-length album Full Send, with "Sexy Creep" as its funk centerpiece. The track had already been turning heads as a single in late 2025, and the cassette-funk production, 122 BPM, acoustic drum loop, synths run through a BOSS GS-10, is the whole aesthetic in one song: vintage equipment, left-field R&B color, and a groove that grins while it stalks.

Start here: "Sexy Creep" for the Full Send era, "Fever Dream" for the debut single where it all started, and "Malibu" for the hazier side of the same timeline.

Where to follow: SoundCloud, Instagram @onokimonomusic, and Spotify.