Downy - the best japanese band that youve never heard of

(I think I meant slightly more readable, but anyway)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1axFkQlF4o

(the title is "Spring & Carnage" as far as I can find)

The album's out in Japan -> https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/di-wu-zuo-pin-ji-wu-ti/id738416245

ffffff all right

oh excellent i found it

well this is just straight up shooting me in the face out the gate

um, is that a good thing? :-)

Videoclip for track 5+6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydy9xpvA1P8

Does this mean they're releasing a live album or studio album 6 in September? -> http://www.downy-web.com/news/

I think it announces a new album and a release show?

which holy shit

Yes! new album. http://1fct.net/releases/pecf-1140

(not-very-helpful Google translation)

+ albums 1, 2, 3 and 4 have been remastered in 2014

Trailer movie for album 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhGr_R9nEQk

Album is out in two days - videoclip for the first track ( 凍る花 - "flowers freeze" ?)

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

The album's out!

Interview Robin Aoki / Taigen Kawabe from Bo Ningen : http://www.brownnoiseunit.com/interviews/downy-x-bo-ningen-the-untitled-6-interview/

whoa the album's on spotify!!!!

well this sure is a downy album. it's great

36 minutes? :(

As usual, it'll probably take me a couple of listens to fully get into (5 only clicked after a couple of months and now I don't understand what I didn't get about it initially)

https://www.last.fm/music/downy/+shoutbox

Their guitarist died in march

and album 6 still hasn't clicked for me yet

oh that's a huge bummer

working on 7th!

downy 7thアルバムのドラムREC終了！
凄まじい曲たちが仕上がって来ています。
身に余る光栄に震えつつも絶対に良い作品にするんだという気合いに満ちております。

ようやく行けたハジメさんのスタジオも素晴らしかったです。
ルームチューニングとATC+Subが本当に良い。
ここでミックスもやりたい… pic.twitter.com/0bomd5Exis

— K C (@KKKKKCCCCC) September 24, 2019

(drums are recorded, it's a great studio, etc) - I only have google translate to go on

they started mixing on New Year's Day btw (

#Repost @aokirobin with @get_repost
・・・
2020年のdownyは
MIX作業からスタート。
元旦からやってましたが
皆で集まると良いアイデアが出て
楽しいですね！

結成20年なんですってよ！
半分休んでたけど。。笑

今年もよろしくお願いします。#downy pic.twitter.com/1jOr4bsdLX

— 青木ロビン (@aokirobin) January 7, 2020

important news on Feb 5th -

今年結成20周年を迎えるdowny。

2月5日（水）正午に大事なお知らせがございます。#downyband pic.twitter.com/Xtr8IKgXPc

— downy (@downy_official) January 31, 2020

Yes!

http://downy-web.com/7/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDtKHzKVl94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZqpXh0lftY

They've been playing it 20 times after each other on Youtube today and it's more immediately accessible than the last one IMO - sounds great.

oh, i'm enjoying this a lot, i haven't kept up with them/didn't realize they were still around (basically i only know them from their cover of This Heat's paperhats)

a track from the live stream you can buy tickets for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUcVqjyJJR0

sometimes I think they just get too complicated for their own good but then other times I hear the exact same song and it all comes together. Weird.

they're selling the live show on a USB stick (order before Jan 9th, probably not shipping outside of Japan) + download - see text below this new clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqdmpoZAt9c

ooh, they ARE shipping outside of Japan (it says 800 yen shipping) - even though the about page of their shop still says they don't

nevermind, no international shipping after all.

you can supposedly buy the download on the official merch store except it doesn't accept my zip code, my phone number format or my credit card (just a regular mastercard that works everywhere else) :(

I complained a bit and now us foreign scum can buy the download!

https://downy.bandcamp.com/album/amazarashi-no-tsuki-wo-miteiru-video-collection

3 singles were released this year - the third link is the EP that compiles all three + two remixes

2022.04.06 https://friendship.lnk.to/Depletion_re
2022.04.27 https://friendship.lnk.to/PassingShower
2022.06.29 https://friendship.lnk.to/wheezing

and Aoki Robin has a new band, zezeco. Debut album Shinsei came out in January:

https://linktr.ee/zezeco

(Sanzen is the album's name, don't know where I got that Shinsei then)