Kindan No Tasuketsu’s music has always sounded like a secret little world, whether they were making splish-splashy folk numbers or dizzying pop numbers. Whatever mood they aim for, it tends to sound like it’s peaking out of a bedroom door frame, even at their most jubilant. “Himitsu No World” embraces that feeling fully, and finds…
Time for MAP, and we start the new year by showcasing one of Make Believe Melodie’s favorite new (to us at least) artists of 2015, Kyoto’s Native Rapper. Listen to him and many more songs below! Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3,…
“Overcame The Sun” came out back in 2013, on a very solid collection called Wait In The Shade. And now, around two years later, the indie-pop number from Osaka’s Cloudy Busey has a video, which you can watch above. And it is a fantastic excuse to revisit both the song and the album it came…
Always here for electronic music that begs you to submerge in it, somewhat goopy sounds that come in slowly and take their sweet time receding. Yamoto Irahi’s Little Pink Cells kicks off with a fine example of this, the half-speed “Green Sea,” wherein vocal samples splash around in some twinkly lagoon. Irahi continues the slowly…
Something that has been on my mind recently is trying to remember how music sounded when I was younger, and how being a teenager I often felt like music was the only thing I ever needed — it was my safe space, and motivation, and the thing that made all the joys of life sweeter…