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The Best Of The Rest Before The Best: New Stuff Last Week Featuring Cloudy Busey, The Vanities, bbbbb And More

We spent last week yacking about all the great music we overlooked throughout 2012…and, in the process, missed out on a lot of great new tunes that popped up during those critical five days. Ironic! The rest of the year here at Make Believe Melodies will be spent talking about the best music of the year in some form or another, with only updates for really significant new stuff. So before we get serious about looking back, let’s catch up with all the good stuff that came out over the past seven days.

Cloudy Busey/Bobcat – Only Devotion

If anyone one long-playing work released in December this year is going to charge our year-end-best features, it would be this majestic beast of a mixtape. Only Devotion gathers all of Cloudy Busey’s (sometimes Bobcat) “sad disco songs” from 2012 in one mix. It features downtrodden dance numbers like the the hiccuping “B4 This Loneliness” and “Up To You (If You Love Me),” one of the year’s finest. Your late-night walks home – alone – just got a soundtrack.

The Vanities 1+1=26 EP

Superb young indie-pop label Ano(t)raks close out an already strong year with one more solid offering courtesy of duo The Vanities. This pair are the most shoegazey of the groups circling the Ano(t)raks world, and this brief outing showcases their buzzy best. Get it here.

bbbbb Anti GridEP

Know another genre of music that had a tight 2012? Juke/footwork! bbbbb appeared on that awesome Kool Switch Works compilation this summer, and now has his own EP of fast-paced, R&B-sampling dance music for you to enjoy/soundtrack your New Year’s Eve party with. Highlight is “B2T,” check it out.

Kangaroo Girls Column By Column EP and Elfs In Bloom Summer’s (Not) Gone

Two new releases from Canata Records – one from Kyoto bedroom project Kangaroo Girls and another from the still-fuzzy Elfs In Bloom. Check ’em out, they are free after all!

Winona Hyper

Will Taquwami-esque music be the Japanese trend of 2013? If it is, Winona Hyper will be in the mix, so get familiar now.

The Best Of The Rest Before The Best: New Stuff Last Week Featuring Cloudy Busey, The Vanities, bbbbb And More

先週は2012年に我々が聴き逃してしまった素晴らしい音楽を紹介していたわけなのですが…そんな事をしてたらその5日間に出てきた楽曲をまたしても逃してしまうという。皮肉ですね!年末までMake Believe Melodiesは様々な形で今年のお気に入りを紹介していきますし、新しいリリースも紹介していきます。なんで真剣に振り返り始める前に、過去7日間の良作をまずはどうぞ!

Cloudy Busey/Bobcat – Only Devotion

まず始めに、年末に時間がある時に楽しんで頂けるCloudy Busey(時折Bobcat)のミックステープ”Only Devotion”。”B4 This Loneliness”や”Up To You (If You Love Me)”等、悲しげなダンスナンバーが素晴らしいです。孤独な家路へのサントラに是非。

The Vanities 1+1=26 EP

まだ比較的若いインディーポップレーベルAno(t)raksの素晴らしい一年を締めくくるのはThe Vanities。このデュオはレーベルの他のアーティストと比較してもシューゲイザーの要素が強く、個性的です。

bbbbb Anti GridEP

2012年に輝いた音楽ジャンルと言えば、Juke/footworkですね!bbbbbは夏にKool Switch Worksのコンピに参加していて、今度は速く、R&Bのサンプリングを使ったダンスミュージックを彼自身のEPとしてリリースしました。ハイライトは”B2T”です、是非楽しい大晦日のパーティーにどうぞ!

Kangaroo Girls Column By Column EP and Elfs In Bloom Summer’s (Not) Gone

Canata Recordsからは2つのリリース。京都のベッドルーム・プロジェクトのKangaroo Girlsと北海道を拠点とするElfs In Bloom。無料ですし、要チェックです!

Winona Hyper

Taquwami風のサウンドが2013年のトレンドになるのか?今のうちにWinona Hyperをチェックしておきましょう!