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…
Haven’t heard much from Birds Melt Sky in a long time…2010, to be exact…which explains why I completely forgot what they sounded like. I originally wrote a post about “Oneday, Someday,” noting how it marked a change in style for the group because the beat was more prominent, making the song more physical, more danceable…
“Melt” is the key word in this band’s moniker. This three-piece manages to boil down a whole lot of musical influences on “ミライミライ,” the first single from Birds Melt Sky’s debut mini-album Birds In Space. Those opening swaths of synth bring to mind the sky-high electro of Bang Bang Balloon or √thumm, then enter the…