Our year-end list starts posting soon, but in a nice bit of “ahhhh remember that?,” pop project Parupunte released Best Of Parupunte 2013~2015 over the weekend. The group, which creates (created?) simple but affecting pop, landed in the top ten of our 2015 list with the still-striking Primitive. Large chunks of that album appear on…
#10. Parupunte Primitive Imagine your favorite pop songs, but recorded deep within a cave. That’s Parupunte’s debut album Primitive, a rough but formidable collection that manages to capture the Osaka duo in all of their scratchy glory, playing absorbing pop songs that sound like the were recorded deep inside a national park. Whatever the circumstances,…
The behind-the-scenes stuff at Make Believe Melodies is incredibly boring. Despite a bad habit of using the royal “we,” it is just me, usually sitting at home while a baseball game or variety show plays on TV, my headphones on. The actual inner workings of this WordPress account are hyper disorganized, a list of “to-dos”…
It feels like Kyoto has seen an increase in artistic activities in 2014, and here comes another new label to further drive that point home. Nenene Label is the latest upstart to jump in the game, and they are off to a nice start with their first release, which gathers three artists together to share…