Tag: music

March 10, 2017 · 1 comment

Tom Smith doesn’t forget the joker. Anime Limited come up trumps again with selector infected WIXOSS, a series from Steins;Gate director Takuya Satou and Fate/Stay Night writer Mari Okada that’s based around a fictional card game craze with a twist. Like all good card games, WIXOSS packs its fair share of rarities. Yet, unlike a £7.5k […]

February 26, 2017 · 1 comment

By Meghan Ellis. If you enjoy your breakfast with a side of restless dread, you should pick up a copy of the remastered Perfect Blue vinyl soundtrack. I say “breakfast” as that’s how my first listen went; a dark January morning over a bowl of New Year’s Resolution, with the film’s songs of madness accompanying […]

November 29, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. Just the opening notes of a song can put a smile on your face, while a few bars can similarly reduce you to tears. But when it comes to playing classical music at a competitive level, technical proficiency is just as important as recreating the emotional resonance of a piece. That, however, […]

October 12, 2016 · 0 comments

By Tom Smith. Music and anime often go hand-in-hand. Watched Pokémon? Then it’s your destiny to know the theme song, instinctively. Been keeping up-to-date with PSYCHO PASS or Tokyo Ghoul? Chances are that “Ling tosite sigure” means something to you, even if you are unsure how to pronounce it. Then, it is not too surprising […]

September 14, 2016 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. Popular music and animation should go together like Lennon and McCartney; Simon and Garfunkel; Pinky and Perky. The animated music video is an established genre; animated music bands have broken the West in the shape of the anime-influenced Gorillaz. However, there aren’t many pop-music dramas in Western animation, and none of the […]