For this month’s Music Alliance Pact, Make Believe Melodies has decided to highlight one of the most interesting new projects in Tokyo in 2012, LLLL. It was tough choosing one song from the twisted dream that is LLLL’s self-titled debut…so why not run with the opening track, “Because Of My Eyes.” Listen to it…and a…
First, I was working on something that talk a bit about the year the acts associated with INNIT have been having this year, and hopefully that will pop up later this week. So apologies if this isn’t as hyperbolic as it could be. That said…oh man listen to this. In advance of their July 1st…
Lot of great stuff in the mix this month – it starts with Canopies And Drapes’ sparse “The Door Into Summer,” warm but hiding a mysterious side. More outright joyful is Post Modern Team’s “Never Let You Down,” blessed with the sort of chorus that makes good weather even better. Tokyo’s LLLL and their warped…
In an effort to reflect the dominant trends in Japanese indie music, we chose Osaka indie-pop outfit Wallflower to appear in the May 2012 edition of the Music Alliance Pact. There “Cure Your Heart” is one of the peppiest songs with twee DNA to pop out of the country this year…and there have been many….
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/44938522″ iframe=”true” /] Indie-pop ended up being the flavor of the April, from the C86 tape Moscow Club presented to the world to an endless parade of twee-leaning bands popping up on SoundCloud. This month’s Make Believe Mix represents this trend and, like the Moscow Club mix, attempts to expand the definition of indie-pop…