At some point this fall, Make Believe Melodies turned ten. I’d known this decade milestone was looming — mainly because 2019 also marked my tenth anniversary of moving to Japan to work in the countryside teaching English to bored teenagers “for a year or two, tops” — and toyed around with ways to celebrate. Then life happened…
Producer Brinq has been sharing fizzy, at-times-80s-indebted electro-pop for the last couple of years, and has seen the project’s stock slowly rise over that time. Brinq’s first full-length album, Magical Brinq Tour, comes out tomorrow, which means now is as good a time as ever to highlight “Baby Baby,” a glistening disco-pop number featuring guest…
We’ve reached the point where idol music – usually an area reserved for AKB48 and Momoiro Clover z – has become really sonically smart. Not always at the top (though sometimes for sure!) but the lower rungs of idol-dom have resulted in some really interesting music. One reason – a lot of young producers are…