Downy - the best japanese band that youve never heard of

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)