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…
PellyColo covers a staggering amount of ground over the course of Solar Powered. The creator’s ambition came through clearly on the sci-fi-inspired album Universal Catalog, a number that turned spacecraft flight into jaunty synth-pop jogs. Solar Powered keeps the same star-bound imagery while pulling ideas from Gradius and house music among other places. It’s a…
How do you build up from a series of great singles and EPs that did throwback funk and city pop better than most of the acts who actually have been christened as such by more mainstream outlets? Well, now you make a science-fiction themed full-length. PellyColo’s Universal Catalog goes all in on the space theme,…
Where PellyColo excels the most is in slow-burning remix work. His wind-swept rework included on Especia’s Gusto is his peak, but he’s done a fair amount of others, with Especia and a few different acts. His latest comes with C-Chikenboys “Kandata,” a song originally released last August that seems right within PellyColo’s lane — easy-going…
Oh PellyColo, you flatter us too much: “He always dreamed to be a better man/but no one tells him what is good or bad/avoiding critics is the easy way out/the ones who judge you are a clever man.” Beyond this nice little shout out to all the music critics out there, producer/player PellyColo’s newest song…