Programming Note: It’s Silver Week in Japan, and I’ll be in the countryside for the next three days! This either means less posts or more, all depends on Internet connection. Moscow Club’s second album, Outfit Of The Day, comes out next week, and here’s the third taste of it. “Carven” is the most refined number…
Here’s the next taste of Moscow Club’s first album in two years, due at the end of the month. “Band Of Outsiders” — premiered via blogger/curator Yvynyl — is Moscow Club playing heads-down indie-pop, all guitars and inter-locking vocal harmonies. It works best as the opener to Outfit Of The Day, and as a nice…
Mannnn, how long have I been waiting to write that headline again? Moscow Club were one of the best indie-pop bands going in Japan from 2011 to, like, 2013. They were all over the place in the best way possible — they had fuzzy twee guitar numbers aplenty, but also synth jams devoted to Ray…
Merry Christmas (close enough!) from Make Believe Melodies. We are going to relax…I SWEAR…until after the holiday, but before kicking back and opening our presents, let’s listen to some special Japanese Christmas songs! Producer De De Mouse sets the seasonal mood just right…using Vocaloid software. He’s booted up Hatsune Miku to tackle “Sleigh Ride,” and…
It’s fun to theorize about how Moscow Club managed to raise more than $5000 on the website Indiegogo in order to press their first vinyl LP ever (full disclosure: I donated to the campaign, and also appeared in the promotional video for this project). It’s also pretty cool wondering what this all means, mannnnn, how…