Magical MistakesのEverything Uncertainが今週発売されました。Day Tripper Recordsからリリースされたフル・アルバムとしては最新作です。もし家から出たくないのであれば…Day Tripperのサイトからも購入可能です。新曲”Later On”のビデオも上から見れます。Magical MistakesはDay Tripperのアーティストの中でも突出した個性があり、本作ではそこがさらに強調されています。”Later On”は、パキパキした質感のアコースティック・ギターやトライバルな楽器が、エレクトロ要素と共鳴し、オリエンタルな雰囲気の強い楽曲になっています。これから関西のシーンをリードしていく存在になり得る独自性が見られます。でもビデオは…昆虫が苦手な人は【閲覧注意】です。
Tokyo indie-rock quartet Mitsume’s third album Sasayaki comes out today, and all signs point to it being a bit of a breakthrough. It’s getting a decent push in stores…I saw the display at the Tower Records in Shinjuku this afternoon, and it is right in the front, and big! And it’s probably going to be…
In case you didn’t know, Make Believe Melodies also has a Tumblr, where I write a bit more about J-Pop and non-Japanese music. A few weeks ago, I wrote about Desire, the new album from Los-Angeles-based artist spazzkid. Read that here. For those who aren’t going to click it – Desire has jumped up to…
Hey, summer going a little too well for you? Having too much fun in the warm weather? Welp, Kansai indie-pop outfit It Happens have the perfect bummer jam to make you wistful. “Track And Field” is an extremely lonely song, just some guitar strumming and downtrodden singing that’s near impossible to understand due to how…
Whirring, buzzing, faint, distant memory, mysterious, hypnotic, strange, intimate, far, intriguing, bedroom, mysterious, gorgeous, slow-burning (if it burns at all), Metoronori’s best song yet. Listen below.
I wouldn’t describe the music Elen Never Sleeps makes as being “dramatic,” at least in the sonic sense. That said, his songs often contain emotional push-pull, evidenced all over this year’s fantastic Silver EP. That collection of songs sounds dreamy and ennui-rich, Elen Never Sleeps always facing some sort of emotional obstacle even when his…
In a Japan Times’ story about her label Flau, the head of Flau reveals that Cuushe’s last EP was intended to get the artist pegged as “dream pop” rather than “electronic pop.” Mission accomplished I believe – who knows how many times I’ve referred to her songs as “dreamy.” Yet newest cut “Twilight,” in advance…
Magical Mistakes is the latest artist under the Day Tripper Records’ umbrella to release a full-length album, as his Everything Uncertain CD arrived in stores this week. Coinciding with that item dropping…you can also get it at the Day Tripper site if you’d rather not leave home…is a video for the song “Later On,” viewable above. The music highlights the aspects of Magical Mistakes that make the project stick out on the Day Tripper record – alongside a slew of disorienting electronics are acoustic-guitar plucks, and like many of his previous numbers “Later On” sounds very organic for an artist associated with a Kansai-based scene known for their future-leaning electronic music. The video, meanwhile, is…well, if you don’t like bugs, proceed carefully.
Nagoya’s House Of Tapes recently started a new netlabel to share music, called Sleep Jam Records. So far, the digital label has put out a compilation and two House Of Tapes’ albums, the latest of which is Heavy Heaven. And it’s somewhat of a throwback for the artist. The three songs here hearken back to…
Indie-pop project Fragile Flowers called up a lot of heavy hitters from the country’s twee-leaning scene for their first album, but have now settled on more fixed lineup for Psyche. It also feels a little more settled sonically, hovering in the same dizzying space that For Tracy Hyde occupied early on in that group’s existence….
The two newest songs from uneasy pop duo Young Juvenile Youth up the approachable sounds ever so slightly. “In Blue” features a slapping beat while “Hive” gravitates around big bubbly Euro-pop-revival synth notes. Yet, the more I listen to both songs, the more immediate sheen fades ever so slightly to reveal something that has a…
The point has been reached where 8-bit bloops and bleeps popping up in music aren’t a novelty, but an honest-to-goodness source of nostalgia for many young adults, who grew up with Nintendo and Sega as close friends. Those sounds were among the first a lot of artists today probably heard, so it seems somewhat natural…
Yoshino Yoshikawa isn’t as interested in the cute side of Japanese music as he once was, but the producer does have a history of exploring the kawaii. The Cats EP collects songs centered around the titular, furry creature, which have been released primarily over SoundCloud over the last few years. And yeah…they all deal with…
Picnic Womenがやってくれました…いや、良い意味でね！彼の最新EP”II Women”のタイトルトラックは、その名の通り、とてもユーモアのあるジュークになっています。この曲ではMariah CareyとBoyz II Menの “One Sweet Day“が使われていて(特にBoyz II Men)、ピッチが下げたり上げたりされています。でも、この”II Women”はただ単に面白いトラックというだけでは無く、Picnic Womenならではの繊細さが光っています。バックで見え隠れするギターがその巧みなギミックのうちの１つで、そのような細かいディテールが、この少し茶目っ気のある曲を音楽としての完成度の高い作品へと変貌させています。更にこのEPは”African”という”II Women”の中だけでなく、Picnic Women史上で最速の曲も収録。Picnic Womenの素晴らしいジューク・コレクションはこちらからどうぞ！.