Going “off the grid” — which, in 2018, means going somewhere with unreliable wi-fi and distracting yourself with a lot of time-sensitive work — can be great in a lot of ways, but boy is the return to the real world jarring. I spent the last five days at the Fuji Rock Festival, and couldn’t really…
There’s probably a timeline where tofubeats spends the majority of his career working behind the scenes to create top-notch J-pop, while also having a lesser-known solo thing too. Plenty of folks have done that in history! But he’s starting to go down a path closer to Tetsuya Komuro, wherein his own projects get the spotlight…
This one benefits a lot from seeing tofubeats perform it live last week in Shibuya. His latest digital single doubles as the theme song to TV Tokyo drama Video Girl AI, which is about a woman who pops out of a television to live with some guy. The verses to “Fumetsu No Kokoro” feature a…
#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…
Fantasy Club is right around the corner, and the latest hint at what Tofubeats has planned for his latest comes via “What You Got,” a dance-pop number that mutates frequently across its six-plus minutes run. It’s a shifty number that slowly adds elements — including strings, which seem to be popping up a lot recently…