I’m trying to finish (errrrrr, start) the official Make Believe Melodie’s “our favorite songs” feature, so in the meantime, enjoy this new song courtesy of Osaka’s Seiho. “Clipping Music” starts off quite sensual – some lovely, lounge-ready electronics playing over the sound of waves reaching the shore – but soon enters territory we are more used to from Seiho, albeit with a rapid stream of hand-clap noises this time around. Listen below.
Mass Of The Fermenting Dregsは９月１日、バンドのホームページにて解散を発表しました。リードシンガーの宮本菜津子によって発表され、彼女のこれからのソロ活動についても言及されています。本文にはMass Of The Fermenting Dregsの未発表曲、“たんたんたん”がプレゼントとして貼り付けてあり、こちらからダウンロード可能です。 “たんたんたん”は、ここ数年のバンドのなかでも良質な音楽を生み出してきたFermenting Dregsらしい結論になっているな、と感じます。あまり勢いのある曲ではないものの、ゆったりとしたメローなテンポは、バンドの今までの曲を思い出させてくれます。色々脳裏に浮かびますが、特に2010年の作品、ゼロコンマ、色とりどりの世界は、その名の通り色あせない名盤です。最後の曲で宮本は声を絞り出すように歌い、攻撃的なギターと絡み合うのですが、決してやりすぎのないように、今までの通り上手く調節されています。
Diane Halls is a new project out of Aichi that has released one really nice song, the dreamy “Stolen Kisses.” I wrote about it for New-York-based blog International Tapes, and you can read it over here. Highly recommend you get the song here.
Earlier this year, Seiho released his album Collapse which saw him mostly moving away from the frantic dance music he had been crafting over the last few years in favor of a sparser, jazzier set content to take its time (with a few bangers mixed in for good measure). Not a huge departure (he’s been…
In Your Galaxie presents an interesting test for shoegaze-leaning outfit Head On The Sofa – can the reverb-loving music they make remain strong for an entire album? Up until now, they’ve only released EPs, often clocking out after five songs. It felt like just the right amount of time for Head On The Sofa, who…
Rapunzel8083は良い意味で今の日本のトレンド、シーンを無視した独自の音世界を追求していると思います。新曲Miró Jazzでは彼の以前の作品からのサンプルを集めたものになっています。中には昨今のYouTubeヒットの”Charlie Bit My Finger – Again!”も含まれており、Rapunzel8083の遊び心がみれます。 又彼の作品の多くには著名な画家へのオマージュともとれる言葉遊びが含まれており、以前の作品にはサルバドール ダリを思わせるDalí Jazzそして今回の作品にはミロの名前が冠されており彼のアートに対する思いが作品になっているのかもしれません。色々な側面から見える彼のオリジナリティーは素晴らしい物がありこの独自の世界を是非試聴してみてください。リンクは以下から.
First off, not safe for work! Kindan No Tasuketsu recently released a new album, and tracks off of it have been trickling online over the last few weeks. Here’s the latest, being released as a special Christmas special (B-side….”Santa Claus Is Coming Back”), though it also appears on her new full-length as well. “Ring A…
今必死にMake Believe Melodieの2012年ベストソングリストを終わらせようとしてます（というか始めようとしてます…）。なので今は大阪のアーティスト、Seihoの新曲をお楽しみ下さい。曲はレイドバックで穏やかな気持ちにさせてくれるエレクトロ・サウンドと波打ち際の音から始まります。そこから我々の知っているいつものSeihoサウンドに突入するのですが、ノイズのような手拍子が軽快で魅力的です。試聴は以下から。
In the past month, Korean pop outfits 2NE1 and Wonder Girls both called it quits. Those announcements came after a few other notable breakups in the world of K-Pop, and after months that saw the landscape of Korean music shift in a new way. It happened a while back, but January felt like it was…
Ujico (or, Snail’s House at other times) has long hop-scotched between a hyper-kawaii sound and something a bit more polished, full of intricate piano arrangements. The recently released Dream Castle EP is the finest balance the young producer has stuck yet between the two. The synths on songs such as the title track and “Dream…
Sometimes, you don’t need much time to make a good point. Osaka’s Valentine’s need just over a minute and a half to shine on “Dear Simon,” a song they originally made a year ago, but have re-recorded now with a slightly more raw feel (all pretty much in the vocals). In either form, it is…
Ace timing on this one — indie-pop outfit Caro Kissa dropped One Summer Day right as real summer…no more week-long rainstorms, but rather brutal-but-liberating “feels like 39 Celsius” becoming the norm…started. The three song set offers up a welcome breeze to the just-born season, the first two songs finding Caro Kissa in their element of…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8uBPG-f1MQ”] AMWE gives us an updated take on Blur’s “Girls And Boys” by going back to 1985. Her version of the classic swamps the track in synths and makes it a whole lot busier if ya know what I mean. Below is the original. [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATWnH-yb6-o”]
Taquwami, a guy who isn’t a staple on the live music circuit, has been playing more shows in 2016, which is good. Well, unless you can’t get to said gigs (or, uhhhh, can’t stay up all night anymore…damn you aging). Thankfully, he’s uploaded his live set from 2016 to SoundCloud, which you can hear above….