The J-Pop Thread

ANNOUNCE // Kyary Pamyu Pamyu returns to the UK in October for a live show at The Roundhouse as part of Moshi Moshi Nippon Festival. Tickets on sale Friday: http://gigst.rs/KPP

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

That's pretty pretty good

Also

http://www.rocksound.tv/assets/uploads/babymetal_wembley2015.jpg

In spite of their popularity and viral attention I think it's actually underreported how genuinely they've become a hit in the west. They're doing the main stage of the Reading festival as they announce this huge solo concert. They've been playing for hundreds of thousands in Europe and the US this summer. I really want them to get out that new album soon, because I have a feeling it could hit high on Billboard.

yeh its crazy how big they've become, looking it up that's a 12,500 venue?
guess i was predisposed to like them but the BiSH album has really grown on me, one of the girls Aina has an amazing full-on voice.
this new song is not on the album and is the first as a 6 piece. folk metal with a video where they fight a giant lobster? well ok then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpLLKM_3ebk

Bish have started finding their own character, yeah. Doubt they'll come close to the impact of BiS but still good news.

New Passepied is too good, what a chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gm7qYBkfr8

yeah, 12000 seater for baby metal in england is phenomenal. they're cleaning up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1546Z08uTUk

Campanella still killing it, album is being put out in the west on Dec 18th by French label Specific, digitally and on vinyl

I am enjoying Dalljub Step Club a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdOtoE0ysYc

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

And Skillkills too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6mkWYJfx3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuuUfP4uJEk

new album is so great, really getting more adventerous!

tho i do wish there were less trap beatz... *shrugs*

Wow, that track is full of teh feels. Love it!

it reminds me of the Tough Alliance heh

Utada Hikaru is in the news again as Adele tries to beat her one week world record of 3m+ sales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhUkPnAsX8Y

This is alrightish though I am never going to love these sorts of vocals. Possibly too indie pop for this thread though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N09q-MBN9cY#t=121

new koutei camera girl is out, trashy idol mortal kombat soundtrack music is the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhUkPnAsX8Y

rippin anime ballad on that PV ain't bad either

also, new sayonara ponytail TRIPLE album! haven't listened yet but this single is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psrAnGOBvU8

Billy Idle released three of the best songs of yhe year

https://youtu.be/UuvWIjGkEGM
https://youtu.be/SrCEoYIdSMg
https://youtu.be/ont1iRQAz1A

new BiSH video is pretty lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2NvbuUbs8

avandoned are pretty great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c1H2ZShoFs

Sounds very much like bis or Helen Love.

Let's get light-hearted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl7B_7h2-OM

Best Momoiro Clover single in a long while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPKX9gsZhi8

...aaaand two new momoiro clover albums just dropped

I haven't even liked any of their singles since 5th dimension really... but man... still feel like calling in sick to work and just playing these a lot tomorrow http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/emoticonshd.com/emoji/64/Emoticon-Thinking-Confused-Shrug-icon.png

Word on the street is Amaranthus is pretty great and their most coherent album-album yet. Still haven't found time to take a listen.

so, this is good shit. hakkin no yoake initially feeling like battle and romance anime mayhem, amaranthus like 5th dimension classic rock moves. gonna need some time to take it all in but surprised by how much I'm enjoying these. kinda wrote momoiro clover off for a minute!

Keyakizaka46 debut single "Silent Majority" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k3oZTwoBwp9AMUg8YfX

Almost a full BiS reunion including Mitchel <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUX8KKKbM4

BiSH's major label debut is a 90 second punky thrash? hell yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-hs9iqBDHM

I've played that song a lot in the past week.

The HatsuneKaidan album is a surprisingly easy listen, guess it helps that Junko isn't screaming all over it lol. Has covers of songs by Perfume, Jun Togawa, protopunk weirdos Zuno Keisatsu amongst others
you can listen to it and buy the LP(!) here

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

song of the year

^^obsessed with this now, thanks

Was coming on to the thread to post the very same song. I know FEMM's stuff but not really familiar with the others of the group.

http://aramajapan.com/news/music/femm-faky-and-yupin-combine-to-create-fammin-with-mindblowing-results/58103/

patrick st. michel provides solid context:

http://makebelievemelodies.com/?p=12656

if the rest of the EP is any indication, the individual acts' music is fine but nothing special. the FAKY song that autoplays after FAMM'IN on youtube is the best i've heard from the lot, sort of like old japanese market SM stuff, which makes sense given avex was the label for most of that.

but "circle"...i wouldn't hesitate to put it in my j-pop top 5. at least since the '80s

This tofubeats is pretty pop, but it probably doesn't belong on the j-pop thread. So where does it belong? The Japanese indie thread seems more underground oriented.

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

The video is a bit too patty-cake-patty-cake for me, but I kind of like the song.

new Tentenko single is a fun lofi rewrite of Roadrunner + toytown noise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDX3dEzXz20

Really liked this 2016 single, which to my unseasoned J-pop ears sounded like Perfume's "Polyrhythm" with Skrillexy cut-up production.

Aira Mitsuki - Detective A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDa8Q3hUDIY

Is this an emerging style, where the idol becomes an electronica producer's toy, even more so in more "mainstream" J=pop? I want more of this.

where the idol becomes an electronica producer's toy

That's most J-Pop. Or at least all Nakata.

Jun Togawa is releasing a new album shocker! recorded with Vampillia, out in December.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkNU0QbXVsw

that's a Yapoos track isn't it?

her voice definitely sounding a bit different these days!

yes, a Yapoos track. looking at the tracklisting there's only one new song at the end http://natalie.mu/music/news/205511

Yeah, the way I read their announcement was it was an anniversary thing? But it's all rerecordings of her old songs, not a comp of them, right?

when was the last time she recorded any legitimately new songs? the last Yapoos album was in 1995 I believe, doesn't seem like she's done a lot since then. seems a bit odd to come back just to re-record old tunes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWLioW7Zx0

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

the last few Wednesday Campanella singles have been excellent

Yep, very cool

the new BOMI is very Campanella, produced by Tokyo Recordings who worked on Campanella's Napoleon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhUHE61xetM

Tentenko produced by Eye of Boredoms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLL91md6Y_o