I’ve moved away a bit from writing about music videos…unless they are REALLY good…but let’s make an exception for “Listen To The Music.” I already wrote at length about the song itself, but shortly after the SoundCloud player was taken down, leaving what should be blaring out of cars and at beach parties across Japan missing. Well, here it is, in video form! The video is whatever, but that song, right?
Diskotopia’s Matt Lyne returns with a new A Taut Line song, and it’s a tad disorienting. In a similar vein to his sweat-soaked summer number “In This Heat,” “Clouds At Night” feels surprisingly claustrophobic, a series of dizzying electronics woozing around the song’s main beat. It feels like a bad dream wrapped around a dance…
Last week, I reviewed MFP’s new album Mindful Beats Vol. 2. for The Japan Times. Read that here. Now, a few days later, the Osaka producer represents Japan in this month’s Music Alliance Pact, wherein more than 30 blogs from all over the world share a great track from their respective country. Check out a…
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…
It’s gone from sorta neat to kinda annoying to pretty impressive that the 80’s remain such an artistic inspiration to so many musicians. Remember, this is a decade most people want to forget, or at the very least lampoon – VH1 greenlit a 10-part series about making fun of the ’80s. Yet just like how…
Oh AAPS, you impatient guys. They’ve previously dabbled in noise and dubstep, and their latest streaming song finds them…imitating Tortoise circa TNT. That is to say, “Wearing Light Space” sounds vaguely tropical and drifty. AAPS manage to work in a bit of creepiness via some muffled singing late in the track, but for the most…
リニューアル後のタワーレコード渋谷店に遊びに行ってきました。２階がカフェで埋め尽くされていたりして、とても面白いですね。いろいろ試聴してて、新しいCDが欲しいなと思ったものの…一番安いのでも４曲入りのシングルで1000円だし…アルバムは2500円だし…この高価な価格設定がCDが売れなくなっている一番の原因ではないでしょうか。Head On The SofaのEPなんかは素晴らしい上にBandcampからタダでダウンロード可能ですし、今の時代多くのEPがMediaFireで無料で落とせます。 Head On The Sofaの新作Memai EPはギターが中心なものの、キャッチーなメロディーが好印象。一曲目の“Stay With Me”はシューゲイザー風の空間ギターにけだるそうなボーカルがフィーチャーされ、退屈になりがちなスタイルなものの、一直線な飽きのこない仕上がりになっています。一番注目すべきトラックは“Through Your Ways”なのですが、これはしゃっくりしてるかのような面白いリズムパターンが特徴的です。最初は不快に感じるかもしれませんが、慣れてくるとやみつきになりますよ。Dinosaur Jrのようなギターが印象的なインストの“Veranda”はギター少年にオススメ。すごく完成度の高いEPですし、Head On The Sofaは他にも作品を出しています。試聴（もちろん無料で）はこちらから。