The news hook is that Spangle Call Lilli Line have a new album, Ghost Is Dead, out on November 11. The intrigue is in the inclusion of Mitsume singer Moto Kawabe on the song “Feel Uneasy,” the first taste of the full-length since July’s “Azure.” Given Spangle Call Lilli Line’s long-running existence, it feels like…
I’m not sure how many hours of my life have been spent wandering around some city in Japan at night while listening to Spangle Call Lilli Line, but I can guarantee the number is very high. It is slightly unfair to reduce any group and their catalog of music into some seemingly random activity where…
The past year saw plenty of worthwhile releases from Japanese artists, from the sort of stuff highlighted at major music stores in Japan to free albums posted on Bandcamp with little fanfare. Yet all 30 albums on this list were special to us here at Make Believe Melodies in some way or another – whether…
20. The Brixton Academy “Two Shadows United” The Brixton Academy have always played the role of overly earnest nightclub crawlers, guys who love evenings out on the town but also aren’t good at bottling up all those icky emotions, prone to letting them shoot out like just-uncorked champagne. Whereas Kido Yoji distracts from his ennui…
Many members of the media and probably a fair amount of your parents have spent time lamenting how the world of today has warped people’s attention spans down to something that can barely get through a 140-character sentence. Whether that’s true or just typical “back in MY day” bluster from older generations can’t really be…