Where is the LOVE for Perfume?

US TOUR DATES (NY & LA only, unsurprisingly)

New single "Cling Cling" is pretty good, if a little Kyary Pamyu Pamyu-ish. Don't love the B-side, "Hold Your Hand," but the other two tracks are good.

Translation: Level3 will be released in the US, with bonus tracks, on Astralwerks.

yuhhhhhhh

worst perfume album + edm bros remix of one of their worst singles does not really seem like the best intro to perfume

what

level3 is their best since game imo

triangle too uneven, jpn too scattered, level3 actually flows pretty nicely as an album

jpn IS scattered and super front-loaded but the highs are higher. there isn't a "my color" or "nee" on level3 and the overt edm-isms really sour it for me

I always forget traingle exists. it's like their new jersey! it might be better than that one.

i love every song on both level3 and jpn and feel like i hear something new every time i listen to them.

I like most of em on jpn except for that one short one that sounds like music for a children's bday party. but I do wish there were more in the buzzing electro chiptune j-pop style that dominates the first half of the record.

whoopso, "a child's bday party" I mean

2nd half is cool too tho. and "spice" is one of my faves.

mirai no museum was made for a doraemon movie -- don't think it should've been on the album but it's easy to skip.

oh wait yr'e talking about "toki no hari" right

haha yes

man, why isn't "hurly burly" a bonus track on the US version? what were they thinking leaving it off the ablum in the first place??

In Tokyo at the moment and saw multiple coloured vinyl options for Level 3, but I didn’t buy it which is telling as I would have bought the previous 3 without even thinking about it.

Just got press list confirmation for the NYC show on 11/15, and possibly an interview (roundtable style, multiple writers). Incredibly excited about this.

YEAH

Who else is going? Mildly curious

B-)

Roundtable interview is confirmed for tomorrow afternoon. I'm coming up with 2-3 questions, though I'll probably only get to ask one.

Perfume interview was...interesting. We were all seated (5 journalists including me, a translator from Universal Japan, and the members of the group) around a cafeteria-style table; I was right next to Nocchi. Questions were translated into Japanese, answers were translated into English. Since there were five of us, and we only had 15-20 minutes, we each got to ask one question. Mine was about their response to the "Spending All My Time" remixes, since those were the first time anyone but Nakata had worked on their music - what did they think of an outsider's version of Perfume? A-Chan answered (she did most of the talking, though they all spoke up) that they really liked all the new elements the producer brought to the song (I believe she was talking about the longer remix) and mimicked the rise and fall of the EDM-ish portions of the track with hand gestures. Apparently, they're going to be performing that version of the song tonight, which is interesting. They were all quite animated when they talked; the other reporters were from i-D, MTV Iggy, Vice, and an outlet I didn't catch because the reporter introduced herself in Japanese, and the questions were about outfits, stage choreography, etc., so the group members would occasionally make gestures - like the "Spending All My Time" hand choreography, or swiveling to indicate that their outfits for the night's performance would be "shiny" (this word was in English, and was followed by giggling). After the interview, all of us took a group photo with them.

Anyway, I'll be writing the whole thing up for Stereogum next week; I'll post a link next week.

Brad you going tonight? I hear there's been a line-up since the early AM

Kashiyuka should've answered your Q, being the dance music connoisseur of the group. But yeah A-chan will be doing most of the talking.

literally the best show i've ever seen

Yup, spent the whole gig raging
Every intro to every song was so good

all of the songs sounded so huge

Posted this last night on Twitter:

Perfume postmortem: my knees hurt from 90 minutes of bouncing, my face hurts from 90 minutes of grinning. Best show I've seen this decade.

so soooooo fun. I wanted another hour!

very happy that ny got bagel shout outs.

anyone else see the guy in a jacket completely covered in idol pins? respect.

In the "generic interview questions" handout I got from the publicist, they specified that they were talking about Murray's Bagels, a choice I support 100%.

There was a dude right near me in a jacket with the cover of Converge's Jane Doe painted on the back.

yeah, what did they say instead of murray's? I just assumed they meant murray's too.

i actually think they said murray's

the 15 minute digression on bagels is basically my favorite variation of someone stalling bc of technical difficulties

and man, "my color" was a dynamite closer. what a song

it's one of my faves but I'd resigned myself to not hearing it by then. man, I was so psyched when it kicked in!!

My review of the show.

｢Relax In The City / Pick Me Up｣ Double A-side Single 2015/04/29 (http://www.sapporobeer.jp/greenaroma/) Release 決定！！

http://www.sapporobeer.jp/greenaroma/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNXwV8RkZ3U

Love double A-sides, double MVs, more fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZiPIgCtIxg

Makes my head spin

that's the best thing i've ever seen

Yeah, that was amazing.

I have no idea what is going on in that video, but I want to be there

new song is really really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhfYis6VuXY

Yesss. and that gorgeous video. HD!

I have no doubt that is an accurate representation of shopping in Shinjuku

“Sukoshi Fushigi” is a sort-of catchphrase the creator of Doraemon, Fujiko F. Fujio, used when he was alive to describe his style of stories. It translates to “Slightly Mysterious” and is used as an alternate form of “SF” which usually stands for “Science Fiction” in Japan.

https://31.media.tumblr.com/1a69deb6a38eb77bbc80b155e2af0673/tumblr_nm4ooaN7cI1u8axueo4_400.gifhttps://33.media.tumblr.com/e699d0b67c2255cf34f18fe0e073541f/tumblr_nm4ooaN7cI1u8axueo6_400.gif

into nocchi's more confident-sounding singing; not so into the added acoustic guitar but i hated "spending all my time" at first and now it's one of my favorites. video is great.

I seem to have lost the LOVE for (new) Perfume. The magic seems to have gone for me in their latest work, maybe I’ll get it later but it all sounds so conventional now.

yeah, I feel ya