![]() The DVD contains video clips of 11 tracks, while the special CD includes tracks from " #3", which was the CD on limited sale at the band's live concert venues before their first album " #4" was released. It was also revealed that "Best of Tornado" will be released in 3 editions "Hyper Tornado Edition" and "Tornado Edition" (both will come with 2CD+DVD), as well as Regular Edition (CD-only). Among those 15 tracks, 5 of them including " Azayaka na Satsujin", " Telecaster no Shinjitsu", " Souzou no Security", " nakano kill you", and " Enigmatic Feeling" are re-mixed by TK (Vo, G). What’s frustrating for me is that the Jrock scene is so full of good bands but it’s really hard for overseas listeners to even hear them.The best-of album will contain 15 tracks in total. I also recommend Mass of the Fermenting Dregs (ignore the weird name they only called themselves that because it was English and sounded cool), very lo-fi and shoegazey or Acidman for a refreshing mix of fast-paced soulful rock fused with funky jazziness…but I’m assuming you’ve already heard of them. The second is a bit more like a more energetic Hologram or My Dead Girlfriend…which is a good thing! I’m a sucker for dueted vocals like this…amazing to see how the guitarist gets his falsetto up to the same pitch as the female bass player AND avoids sounding all shrill. The first one reminds me a bit of mudy on the 昨晩, only with vocals and without the weird time signatures: There’s still the same boundless sense of energy though. I know this probably all sounds like hyperbole, but yeah, if you want to shut me up, just listen to them, would you? Even after dozens of plays, they remain fresh, and I’m now at the point where I just need to tell you about them. Despite the constant plays in my car since the middle of January (a sure-fire way to kill lesser bands,) Just a Moment (2009) and Still a Sigure Virgin? (2010) still aren’t tiring for me. Their latest 2 albums (out of 4 so far) are fantastic. I love hard and fast music, but it’s not just that, their songs are full of energy, and one gets a strong sense of life from almost every one. I suppose my punk roots are showing there. I’m not a fan of progressive rock, or even post-rock, really, so I love that they craft songs with choruses, and that they end in less than 5 minutes. Although it may sound like random, disconnected noise at first, as soon as the second half begins, a structure asserts itself. Like many of their other songs, JPOP Xfile will only start to make sense half way through. Of course, the constant switching between the male and female vocalists is delightful, and that they thoroughly torture their guitars, too. The cool thing about this song is that it’s a fine showcase for their style the rapid-fire drumming, the seemingly random way the song progresses at first, the sudden changes of pace and the way the vocals switch between highly pitched and slow to an absolutely belting chorus. Going by YouTube views alone, their most popular song is JPOP Xfile, a single from 2009. That’s why I described it as if they crept up on me I was listening to them at work one afternoon, the dots suddenly connected and now, I’m head over heels. Their music is fast-paced and aggressive songs that may sound like a wall of noise at first, but that make sense (melodically) on subsequent loops through. ![]() Now one of my favourite bands, they are, I’m convinced, Japan’s best rock group since Supercar. ![]() Ling Tosite Sigure (凛として時雨) just seemed to creep up on me in January.
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