Where is the LOVE for Perfume?

in fact in its album mix "cling cling" kinda sounds like a follow-up to "voice"

Tokimeki Lights is just the kind of warm, comforting Perfume track, mid-tempo, with uniquely Perfume-y flourishes, a little piano - they did these quite a bit in earlier years and all my defenses break down.

Story: For people who felt the EDM elements on the last album were far too subtle.

it's distinctly less enjoyable than "party maker" but i imagine it goes off live

"hold your hand" is an inspired idea for a closer imo

Story is the intro music from their SXSW showcase. It worked at an intro, but... It's quite funny, at least, that it comes at the point it does on the album. BAM!

Like this a lot. Baby Face is cute.

I like the album on first listen, but its multifaceted-ness takes some getting used to. The title track could easily be covered by a power metal band like Sonata Arctica or somebody, and I'm not sure we needed two ballads (one with acoustic guitar). And the stuff that seems most blatantly aimed at US dancefloors is a little hard to take. I would have preferred more ultra-hard capsule-style techno tracks. But "Pick Me Up" is still such a great song it balances out a lot of the less-immediately-awesome stuff. I'm gonna listen to the album a few dozen more times and see if I change my mind.

i really should've learned years ago to stop actively listening to perfume singles and just wait for the album but the sequencing on this record is really bizarre to me and i can't tell if it actually is or i'm just hyperfamiliar with the back half

I haven't listened that much to the singles, and I also think the sequencing is really weird. I kinda like that, though.

was just remembering how I felt the first time I heard the cut-up part of "polyrhythm". still prob the best thing I've ever heard

The sequencing is really weird; it doesn't come to a conclusion like an album "should," it just sort of...runs out of tracks.

Perfume can even make tropical house sound good <3

dang. if you got rid of the title track and "story" this would be a much tighter record – and still plenty substantial at 47 mins.

surprised by how enjoyable and compatible these songs are otherwise, even if they might not have much to match the highs of their other albums. really in love with "miracle worker" for some reason

think this might be my fav Perfume song in quite a while
http://mikietsang.tumblr.com/post/164736017493/perfume-everyday-video-clip-lq

mugenmirai

https://youtu.be/Q51bru32S7A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WQZ_Q8e_pU

whoa

"fusion" intro is... not unlike dopplereffekt?

I don't really care for "mugenmirai" tho. man, enough with the dubstep wobbling already, nakata.

btw anyone listen to his recent solo ablum? I'm afraid to.

I'm curious about it but man is it getting some terrible reviews

yea it feels like he still hasn't really recovered from that dark EDM bro period

Just got an email from my friend Patrick, he's written about GAME for the 33 1/3 series, he's a great writer, very well informed and kinda gossipy in a good way, I'm looking forward to checking this out.

oh tight, been meaning to check that out, nice to hear a good uh testimonial

would read!

oh cool it's already out, *will* read!

New album in August http://www.perfume-web.jp/eng/news/individual.php?id=46

yesssssss

Tour dates! We were maybe visiting Japan this autumn anyway, this could swing it.

http://www.perfume-web.jp/eng/news/individual.php?id=47

Future Pop

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgqrW_kU8AAsHbf.jpg

01. Start-Up
02. Future Pop
03. If you wanna
04. TOKYO GIRL
05. FUSION
06. Tiny Baby
07. Let Me Know
08. Chorairin
09. Mugenmirai
10. Housekino Ame
11. Tenku
12. Everyday

what a title

Interesting one 18 years into their career. A statement about their legacy, and maybe that they're still at the front

august! jeez

oh sweeeeeeeeet

Expecting a promo stream this week. Really excited.

it’s out

and it’s like a b sides compilation

I like it a lot, probably more than their last album. So far, anyway. New songs have a throwback quality, very cute. And the singles pop in this context.

aw this is fun and thankfully way shorter than usual

I've seen complaints that the singles appear on the album exactly as they were initially released, not in new album mixes.

i guess it's fine that i accidentally ignored this singles cycle then

I have some thoughts about Future Pop.

The album mixes have been downgrades lately so I'm happy they stay the way they were. I listen to Perfume mostly through albums and I want the 'real' deal.

nice article that xp

do they have a comp with the singles mixes? don't exactly want to track down 20 separate singles

it was only on Level3 and Cosmic Explorer where there were mostly new mixes for the previously released singles, Triangle and JPN just had one or two new mixes of previously-released B-sides on them too.

there's no compilation of all the single version of tracks but there's not that many and the singles are all easily available on streaming services, it's not very hard to track them down.

Update: Le Me Know is a classic, A+ Perfume single, and with this great new Future Pop MV I'm ready to declare this year a Golden Age Perfume Year.

These are two of the best singles of 2018 and both get me emotional

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGlFxkWgI84

holy shit that is one of their best mvs, which is saying a lot

"let me know" is such an awesome song, can't believe nakata is still surprising me like this

That video is amazing. "If You Wanna," "Fusion," "Tenku," and "Everyday" are still my favorite tracks on the album.

yyyyyeeeeeeIKES

amazing how all the imagery generally used to accompany dystopian articles about surveillance and social credit dictatorships are assimilated perfectly and neatly into a Perfume video slash advertisement for how great 5G is going to be

new album not kicking in for me, even the singles - something went missing in the latest replica, though my outlook has shifted as well the last two years and it's probably just me having a harder time enjoying almost anything

that shot of the three of them dancing, surrounded both on land and air by circling shopping carts & delivery drones is really something though

pop content never to be mistaken for mere entertainment etc

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278
https://ehtrust.org/key-issues/cell-phoneswireless/5g-networks-iot-scientific-overview-human-health-risks/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5784487/The-roll-5G-wireless-service-massive-health-experiment-public-health-expert-warns-a.html