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
― Does anybody remember Rock In Opposition? *audience screams* (Matt #2), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:31 (five years ago) link
Future Pop
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgqrW_kU8AAsHbf.jpg
01. Start-Up02. Future Pop03. If you wanna04. TOKYO GIRL05. FUSION06. Tiny Baby07. Let Me Know08. Chorairin09. Mugenmirai10. Housekino Ame11. Tenku12. Everyday
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 05:03 (five years ago) link
what a title
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 05:10 (five years ago) link
Interesting one 18 years into their career. A statement about their legacy, and maybe that they're still at the front
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 06:08 (five years ago) link
august! jeez
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 09:40 (five years ago) link
oh sweeeeeeeeet
― nxd, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 09:48 (five years ago) link
Expecting a promo stream this week. Really excited.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
it’s out
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 August 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
and it’s like a b sides compilation
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 August 2018 05:14 (five years ago) link
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.
― abcfsk, Friday, 17 August 2018 06:46 (five years ago) link
aw this is fun and thankfully way shorter than usual
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 19 August 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
I've seen complaints that the singles appear on the album exactly as they were initially released, not in new album mixes.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 19 August 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
i guess it's fine that i accidentally ignored this singles cycle then
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 19 August 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
I have some thoughts about Future Pop.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 12:31 (five years ago) link
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.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
nice article that xp
― nxd, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
do they have a comp with the singles mixes? don't exactly want to track down 20 separate singles
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
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.
― ufo, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
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
― abcfsk, Friday, 21 September 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
holy shit that is one of their best mvs, which is saying a lot
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 21 September 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
"let me know" is such an awesome song, can't believe nakata is still surprising me like this
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 21 September 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
That video is amazing. "If You Wanna," "Fusion," "Tenku," and "Everyday" are still my favorite tracks on the album.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 21 September 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Friday, 21 September 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
that shot of the three of them dancing, surrounded both on land and air by circling shopping carts & delivery drones is really something though
― Milton Parker, Friday, 21 September 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
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/10200278https://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
― Milton Parker, Friday, 21 September 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
wow that's a truly fantastic video
not really sold on the album at all, it's fine i guess but not at all thrilling like they used to be, and Cosmic Explorer at least had "Relax in the City" which was really sublime if not 'exciting'. nowhere near as bad as nakata's solo work at least
― ufo, Saturday, 22 September 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
Fun fact: a couple of days ago I explained--to someone I don't generally talk music--that "Dream Fighter" is one the greatest things I've ever heard. They were bewildered and wholly unmoved upon looking it up.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 22 September 2018 05:35 (five years ago) link
"Polyrhythm" is still one of my favourite songs ever
― ufo, Saturday, 22 September 2018 06:06 (five years ago) link
Fun fact: a couple of days ago I explained--to someone I don't generally talk music--that "Dream Fighter" is one the greatest things I've ever heard
lol i was actually expressing this very thing yesterday, it's still the most mindblowing song i've heard in the past ten years
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 September 2018 07:24 (five years ago) link
I've tried telling trad prog-rock guys they should listen to Polyrhythm because it has polyrhythms in it (sort of). They weren't buying it, sadly.
― Category: Animist Rock (Matt #2), Saturday, 22 September 2018 09:18 (five years ago) link
should we do a singles poll? they have such a great run
― ufo, Saturday, 22 September 2018 10:56 (five years ago) link
yes!!!!
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 September 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
POLLyrhythm - Perfume singles poll
here we are then!
― ufo, Saturday, 22 September 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
touring "Asia and North America" next spring, no dates/venues yet
🌟 Very excited to announce that we will be doing an Asia and North America tour in Spring 2019! Can’t wait to share wonderful moments with you again. ❤️ Stay tuned for more details coming soon. #FuturePopTour #prfm pic.twitter.com/YvlqXeLUqh— Perfume_um (@Perfume_um) September 22, 2018
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 22 September 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
That 2014 NYC concert was fucking amazing. I am seriously thinking about going back next year.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 22 September 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
btw see them live if you can
first us tour was the best show i’ve ever seen
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 23 September 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
I wanted to tie in seeing one of their arena shows with a forthcoming Japanese trip but it didn't happen, not least because the tickets are about £150.
― Category: Animist Rock (Matt #2), Sunday, 23 September 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
<3 that video
― nxd, Monday, 24 September 2018 08:51 (five years ago) link
that video, holy moly
new album isn't really clicking for me but that's alright. I feel like the run up to and including JPN is more than most will ever accomplish and the rest is enjoyable enough. I like 超来輪 on this one.
great GREAT live act. seriously, go see them if you can.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 04:32 (five years ago) link
NA live dates are up!http://www.perfume-web.jp/cam/FUTUREPOP/world/
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
An interesting Forbes interview
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link
Also playing Coachella
― abcfsk, Thursday, 3 January 2019 06:59 (five years ago) link
And yeah they had some good answers
so so cool that they’ll be at Coachella!! Happy to see that the fest is still at least *trying* to reach for unique acts, even tho the American festival landscape - Coachella usually included - is so homogeneous these days.
Having a hard time getting into Future Pop. I like Tenku, but that’s pretty much it. Everything else feels very...um...”early-2010s” EDM?
I prefer the techno-disco of everything through Level3, which in retrospect is a pretty consistently bangin’ album.
― KevRus, Friday, 4 January 2019 03:47 (five years ago) link
In a rare cover performance Perfume do Ryuchi Sakamoto's Computer Obaachan https://vimeo.com/309652893
― abcfsk, Thursday, 10 January 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link
awesome...never even heard the original
funny part in that interview..."we're gonna hit our 30s now"...that's nuts! their first single was in 2002!
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
Oh my, that cover! Amazing.
― emil.y, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
this rules
― nxd, Friday, 11 January 2019 10:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/01/10/music/perfume-goes-back-dance-basics-ahead-coachella-debut/
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 11 January 2019 11:13 (five years ago) link
i've barely listened to any of their music since jpn but i'm considering seeing them live in nyc in a few days b/c it's rare that i'm in this city and i can't count on necessarily getting the chance to see them again
― dyl, Thursday, 28 March 2019 03:54 (five years ago) link