New Perfume Video: “不自然なガール” Or “Artificial Girl”
Watch it here. Over-analysis later.
Watch it here. Over-analysis later.
Tokyo’s LLLL make their music video debut with the above clip for “Drowned Fish,” from this year’s still-splendid debut EP. If you like bathtubs full of flower petals or jump rope…or really good music blurring the line between pop and experimental sounds…check it out.
Do you feel that, hanging in the air? As chilly autumn winds start blowing in, so does the specter of year-end lists. Tofubeat’s first full-length album Lost Decade is a lock to land somewhere on Make Believe Melodies’ top albums list, and if you haven’t bought a copy yet, get on that. Maltine Records, who…
Big things happening around these parts in the near future, so this will be a relatively quick edition…with picture complete with Japanese buzzword! aiko “Kuchibiru” WATCH HERE, STARTING AT THE THREE MINUTE MARK Here’s an artist who exist in the unoffensive middle, someone who never releases anything terrible but also has failed to release anything…
Ikimono-gakari “ノスタルジア” – This is basically a ballad, but let’s take the “glass half full” approach and look at “ノスタルジア’s” positive attributes. Unlike most J-Pop ballads swelling to the brim with strings and peaks, Ikimono-gakari keeps things rather understated. Only some acoustic guitar strums and keyboards accompany lead singer Kiyoe Yoshioka’s vocals. Something about this…
“Restraint” isn’t a word I’d normally associate with producer De De Mouse. His music usually dices vocal snippets into half-second squeaks, and then he rearranges them into speedy patterns that at times sound like something you find on the hardest difficulty of a Nintendo DS rhythm game…and those are the tracks lacking drum ‘n’ bass…
Merpeoples, whose first mini album comes out next month, have posted a new video for their song “Sherman.” Watch the band prance around in the forest and try on masks below. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrkOGoa50q0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]