Tokyo Jihen - Gomatsurisawagi

Track Review
Released: 2004
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Have you ever been to Japan?

The entire place is on a collective insanity trip. (Work 18 hrs a day and sleep in a coffin? Sure. Sell used schoolgirls undies in vending machines? Why not!)

It's also more fun that anywhere else in the world.

Suitable, then, that these 2 two traits come to the fore in this track from Tokyo Jihen's "Kyoiku" album.

Sheena Ringo is one of those ridulously talented japanese artists, and now with 4 solo albums behind her she's decided to form/join a band (Tokyo Jihen literally means "Tokyo Incidents"). This is my first taste of her music and I'm not complaining one iota.

It's jazzy-spazzy-rock which could only have been fired out from the bowels of nippon, futuristic and traditional, hip and daggy, all at the same time.

And when the cocktail-bar piano stabs come in at the end, I have to up this from a 6 to a ....

7/10