Add one more band to the “Japanese groups that apparently made great music in 2009” heap. The appropriately named LSD March churn out glazed over psych-sludge rock that’s bleak and captivating. The fine folks at CMG listed the Himeji band’s Under Milk Wood as the 47th best album of the year, and listening to a…
Notice anything different? It’s the new Make Believe Melodie’s banner…something to reflect the fact that, when we aren’t talking about Perfume, it’s probably some indie-pop band with a really twee name. Thanks to my friend Jessica Nguyen for making this. Check out more of her art over here, it’s very good stuff. Bonus pointless video:…
The fine folks over at SparkPlugged posted this track the other day, and I’ve been slowly drawn to it since. I realize the video for “Universe Universe” features an astronaut (and, uh, named for the universe), so avengers in sci-fi clearly wanted this track to be “spaced out.” As obvious as that is, those B-movie…
Oh, it’s the most wonderful time of the year -the arrival of countless best-of-the-year album lists on the Internet. And in magazines if you are still into that sort of thing. We at Make Believe Melodies aren’t remotely above the rest of the blog-sty and present to you our (OK, mine) 25 favorite albums of…
Tokyo electro-guy Hoshina Anniversary does his remix thing on a track from spazzy chiptuner 99 Letters. “Incratible (Hoshina Anniversary Remix)” scales back the usual madness found in chiptune, favoring instead to transform the song into an 8-bit-braised club track. Hoshina Anniversary stretches it out for more than five minutes, making subtle changes here and there…