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。
To some extent, Shibuya-based music maker Metoronori’s Mawari reminds me of fellow Japanese artist i-fls. Both are painfully DIY, recording simple electronic tracks on their own, both artists defined by chintzy keyboard and synth sounds. Their music also evokes youth gone by, mostly via the simplistic sound they lean on. Yet one thing separates the…
Long time since we heard from Tokyo’s Puffyshoes, and going forward who knows when (….if?) we will hear from them again. So let’s all devote a decent chunk of time to enjoying “Heatwave,” their latest feedback-touched quickie. The highlight here are the vocals, which might be hard to hear, but are so damn catchy it…
Drop-loving producer Miii has been teasing new tracks online for the last few weeks, and now they all come together on Maltine Record’s 128th release, Everything Happens To You. His aggressive sound is intact, but he’s pushing his songs to new lengths…the first two tracks here clock in at over seven minutes. Yet they all…
東京のプロデューサーOKLobbyの作品にはよく、”リゾート”っていうキーワードがでてきますね。かれのデビューEPのタイトルも”Resortworks“でしたし、収録曲からは”Mind Resort Scidaria”というタイトルも見受けられます。バンド名に含まれる”Lobby”という単語は、2012頃から存在したシティ・ポップやvaporwaveを連想させますが、どうやら違う模様。むしろ、同じ東京のプロデューサーTaquwamiがここ最近手がけている音に近く、Resortworksの三曲からは猛烈な打ち込みドラムと切り刻まれたボーカルのサンプルが聴こえます。TaquwamiのBlurrywonderは、不鮮明でもやもやしたサウンドが渦巻き、それが作品の魅力なのですが、OKLobbyはというと、もっと鮮明で、クリアなサウンドが印象的です。”Mind Resort Scidaria”なんかでは子供達の声や、アラビア風の歌唱みたいなものが、シンセサイザーの土台の上で歌っています。”Fireworks”ではエフェクトがかけられたボーカルがフィーチャーされているものの、複雑になっていく曲の後半までは、とても鮮麗されています。 Resortworks E.P. by OKLobby 上で紹介した曲以外にも”Life Is A Short Life” という曲があって、これはまだ数少ないリリースの中でも最高にチルド・アウトしています。視聴は以下から。
It’s time for the Music Alliance Pact, where blogs from more than 40 countries share a fantastic track from an artist in their nation. Make Believe Melodies decided to showcase Nagoya outfit CRUNCH and their Radiohead-inspired-but-so-much-more “Mori No Naka.” Listen to it – and a lot more – below. Click the play button icon to…
大阪のインディーポップ・トリオ、Les Glass Glacéが、繊細かつ軽快な２曲をネットで公開しました。個人的にはハイライトな、”Sixpence Might Change Your Whole World”では、”ex-boyfriend couldn’t understand/ sixpence might change your whole world”という可愛らしい歌詞にそぐう、淡くポップなシンセを堪能できます。暖かい雰囲気は、曲の流れに沿ってさらにアップビートに。一方で、”Cute And Reliable”はどちらかというと取っ付きにくい印象。よりミニマルでスローなこの曲では、”he’s a really nice guy/let’s go see him”という歌詞のように少し現実的すぎるかも。でもリラックスしたこの曲に始まり、”Sixpence”が次に来ると考えると納得です。視聴は以下から。
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.
It’s way too easy to draw comparisons between Ayutthaya and tricot, to the point where it should feel kinda like a trap. And…it is! At least for the most part. The trio put out their first EP last year, Good Morning, a set moving from chugging rock recalling American Football and similar ’90s groups (“Grapefruits”)…
Fall is here, and here’s the first Music Alliance Pact of the season. MAP, if you are stumbling across this for the first time, is a monthly feature wherein 30-plus blogs from around the world share one song from their representative country. Make Believe Melodies covers Japan, and this month we put the spotlight on…
The Expo ’70 Commemoration Park in Osaka is probably one of my favorite places in the world to visit. It’s peaceful and pretty and all around a place that puts me in a good mood every time I have had a chance to stop by while in Kansai. Yunovation’s “Roki Store” takes its title from…
Though the furthest physical distance I often travel while writing is to the refrigerator to grab a Kraft Single to nibble on (the life of a blogger!), I do take on all sorts of endless journeys across the Internet, specifically the wasteland known as MySpace, in order to find exciting Japanese music. For the most…
Maison Book Girl making a play for international listeners is kind of unexpected, though fitting. They just wrapped up a tour of England, and are even signed to a new British labeled focused on Japanese music, and really if any post-BiS (version 1.0) idol group deserves that shot it’s the one with the most interesting…
November might be a week away, but producer Idiot Pop is reflecting on the warmer months with the just-released Our Summer EP. The title track hits on all the familiar notes a summer-centric song released in mid Autumn should — it’s bouncy, but the vocals (especially the hook by Shingo Maeda of shoegaze band Birds…