#10 Ame To Kanmuri Nou Welcome to the top ten, where a common thread emerges in the releases Make Believe Melodies loved the most. This year was defined by artists who have been around for a while now hitting the sweet spot of their respective sounds, along with performers who crafted their own little fully-realized…
Up until now, Pasocom Music Club have been an outfit creating sleek, catchy dance-pop songs echoing a particularly plastic past, but almost never giving into nostalgia (even covers, such of Sugar Babe’s beloved “Downtown,” turn into something so radically different as to be more than the equivalent of staring at your record collection). This year’s…
The past is never too far from contemporary music. The ’80s have haunted Japanese music of all sorts for…well, probably even longer than when I arrived in 2009. Yet recently, it has been even more clear than ever before. Domestically, Suchmos have become a top-tier act using mellow rock stylings…not “city pop” as they’ve been…
So this week is probably going to be brutal, and posting is probably going to be a bit less than usual as I try to put a lot of things to bed. But I still want to do some quick hit posts daily, even if they aren’t much more than “hey, that song above? Listen…
Very busy day for me…and a lot of solid stuff appeared online. So here is a quick hitter touching on them all. — On her latest number, Bonjour Suzuki teams up with French rapper Sebastian for a dreamy Parisian pop number. The music itself unfolds in the same electronic haze she has played around with…