Where is the LOVE for Perfume?

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.

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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

'Pick Me Up' is definitely quite conventional but it is also good. I like it a lot.

Listening to the whole 3-track single it's one of their strongest releases in years.

Here's the MV for Relax in the City https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mo95i_perfume-relax-in-the-city_music

And here's the B-side https://vimeo.com/126262930

really like that b-side <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK4GDYwR_Lk
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2oyh61_pick-me-up-mj_music

Finally got hip to this outfit after jbr FB post.

jbr?

rtf

I really like Relax in the City.

Possibly the best MV collection in the world is now reuploaded in full HD http://www.youtube.com/user/Perfume/search?query=mv

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Just posting this pic twice. It's PR for upcoming single STAR TRAIN, October 28

STAR TRAIN

as many styles nakata has gone thru over the years i sincerely hope his bro-EDM turn is short-lived

I dunno, oddly the slight EDM touches on some Perfume singles have humanized them in an interesting way.

yeah i love "spending all my time," "party maker," and "pick me up" so it's whatever

Nakata's latest Kyary single on the other hand falls flat and seems to flop on JP charts as well. She was outselling Perfume for a short period.

I don't know if I want Perfume too human - seeing one of them barefoot in their last video was actually weirdly shocking. (This only applies to their music, obviously; I've been in the room with them, I know they're human beings.)

It's interesting. On the last two albums they have definitely moved towards less processed vocals. I don't want them to make regular ol' pop of course. They're Perfume. But at the same time there's something tantalizing in peeking behind the mask, and the emotional effect of clean voices breaking through in parts of their songs has been strong. A-chan, at least, is also a v good vocalist. We're certainly at the point in time, 15 years into their career, where it's difficult to invent without messing with their signature. Do they need to invent? I don't know. But I've promised myself to not be reactionary about it. I've seen them live three times and they gave me very different faces of the group in those three shows. Very different venues, approaches. From intimate to big and epic to fun and frivolous. They're versatile, in a way. I just hope they and Nakata can have fun creating new music.

/ aimless rant of a stan

"spending my time" is incredible but only the single version

haven't really felt much of their other EDM stuff. nakata's giving his interesting material to this new kid nowadays, forget her name but i heard a song a couple months back that was definitely where his creativity's been going

latest capsule LP was very boring; esp so considering CAPS LOCK was a neat little album of surprising melodic IDM-y instrumentals

xp When Kyary got started people were saying Nakata gave the good stuff to her, now it's a new one. I don't really agree. I think Perfume is a sort of constant in Nakata's career, the girls a guarantee for a steady high quality. His Kyary work has varied, his Capsule work is hit and miss, his inspiration for other projects varies comes and goes, but Perfume has never really had a bad streak or spotty album. But I agree he seems more playful with Natsume Mito than Kyary these days. We'll see how long it lasts.

i love perfume at their best but i would never consider them an albums group, like maybe barely game...i think their singles and b-sides continued to improve up through LEVEL3, but the run of EDM and phoned in j-pop singles since then has left me pretty cold

honestly i wouldn't consider anything nakata's done to be a top-to-bottom great release, w/ the possible exception of coltemonikha 2

barely game?

:|

hi again brad :) been missing you

game is really consistent and there's nothing bad on it by any means, but i think as a start-to-finish listen it doesn't have enough variation. nakata's career-long struggles with pacing at the song level contributes, as well.

i'm way more into the dynamics of having "point" followed by "daijobanai," for example. i know it's never gonna happen but i think a whole album with that kind of individual quality and variety is where the potential is

perfume is in <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=34&v=aBYWGjIzvyw>;this iphone ad</url> for two thirds of a second at 0:26 and again at 0:42 because obviously?

let's pretend i can do formatting codes just for now

xp I couldn't disagree more violently - I think all their albums, from complete best up to and including JPN are 10/10s and among the classics of pop history.

I think the singles campaign for Level 3 was their weakest but it's pretty great as an album. The singles post-Level 3 have been better, explored new terrain.

I do find it difficult to listen to a full album, IMO there aren't enough good album tracks like "Speed of Sound" (by which I mean, tunes that are NOT intended to be singles). But of course when you're in the mood for 'em they're like the best things ever.

I'm with abcfsk - JPN is a fucking fantastic album-as-album. Level3 is really the only time an album of theirs felt even slightly like a letdown, and that was mostly because the original mixes of the singles ("Spending All My Time" in particular) were so superior to the album mixes.

Game is def best but i think they're all difficult to listen through. a little bit of editing could've gone a long way there, though (and a judicious 'best of' would be unbelievable).

Not a single album track pre-Level 3 is less than an 8/10. For 10 years they had the most perfect discography in history, basically. And I think the album experience also adds something, I think they're album and live artists, there's a play between the big chorus numbers and the introspectives, the quirkiness and the bangers.

eh i somewhat disagree. i think their most impressive singles campaign also predicated their most uneven album, triangle (lol i know i'm alone there)

otherwise their albums are all great, and i hold game and level 3 in nearly the same esteem

Ok some time this fall I'll go through all the albums and review each track.

Where is the LOVE for student folk trio cover versions of Perfume songs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twb8cB9dRHU

no, brad, i find triangle especially uneven, too. maybe their most uneven, but i suppose i should give their discog a fresh coat of lastfm paint it's probably been half a year at least by now

agreed, however, with whoever said LEVEL3 had their best batch of singles but album was a letdown in large part because of how botched those singles' LP arrangements were

anyway it's really interesting that there the venn diagram overlaps of everyone's opinions are so thin. i know game is kind of a consensus record but past that we're all over the place

what's everyone's favorite perfume songs? unranked but all 5 stars in my itunes:

ポリリズム
The Opening
ナチュラルに恋して
ねぇ (Nee) [and its instrumental]
ポイント (Point [and its instrumental])
だいじょばない (Daijobanai, from a songwriting and songwriting-meets-production standpoint their best)
Fake It
Spending all my time [single mix, and its instrumental]
575 [and its instrumental]
Kiss and Music [like Oizo producing mid-aughts Britney, so good]

some other songs close, and i'd even make revisions of some of these ("Nee" could be so much shorter), but these are top-tier imo. Game is most consistent but only has one of these

I don't think anyone but you would say Level 3 had the best batch of singles. Weakest by far.

triangle had the best singles. love the world, dream fighter, one room disco