Eryyy - SOKO NI ARU DAKE LP

Eryyy - SOKO NI ARU DAKE LP

Eryyy's third album, by the Japanese beatmaker and singer.
This album features a sound blending electronica, pop, and ethnic elements with improvisational keyboard phrases and live instrument samples. Eryyy's vocals, combining catchy J-POP qualities with a dark edge, paired with dance music-inspired minimal beats, create a unique sense of floating for the listener.
released September 16, 2025

Music / Arrange / Lyrics / Recorded by Eryyy
Mixed and Mastered by Noriyuki Takagi a.k.a. NT 
https://eryyy.bandcamp.com/music

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Mai Mishio - Turn Around

Mai Mishio - Turn Around

 Eight years after her previous album, "Usotsuki Mishio," Mai Mishio's latest album, "Turn Around," is an ambitious work co-produced by Takuro Okada and mastered by Alex DeTurk, an engineer at New York's The Bunker Studio who has worked on Big Crown Records releases and with David Bowie and D'Angelo.

In addition to rearranged and re-recorded versions of her signature tracks "Sayonara, Sayonara" and "Muinai na Denwa," the album features a diverse selection of tracks that transcend the boundaries of band sound, including "Cheek Time," which incorporates Chicano soul and '60s pop vibes, and "Things I've Done
" a danceable track with a mellow, tropical vibe that also hints at Brazilian psychedelia.

The album lies somewhere between retro and vintage, leaving listeners with a deep sense of satisfaction. The artist photo was created by photographer Katsuhide Morimoto. Art director Nagato Tetsuya layered the photograph on paper and re-photographed it with a macro lens, creating an image that visualizes the work in a minimalist and noble way, becoming a symbolic artwork.

released November 19, 2025

All Songs Written by Mai Mishio

(‘Quiet Night’ English translation by Atto Armoo)


The recording members of Goodfellas are


Mai Mishio (Vocal, Backing Vocal, Electric Guitar, Acoustic  Guitar, Electric Bass, Piano )

Tomoyuki Ōtsuka (Electric Bass)

Mitsuhisa Sakaguchi (Piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Synthesizer)

Kazuhiko Masumura (Drums,Percussion,Cuíca)

mmm (Flute, Voice)

Takuro Okada (Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Twelve-string Guitar, Pedal Steel Guitar, Electric Bass, Wurlitzer, Mellotron, Farfisa, Synthesizer,Percussion) 





Sound Produced and Arranged by Takuro Okada, Mai Mishio


Recording Engineer by Shinsuke Sasakura, Takuro Okada, Kazuhiko　Masumura, Mai Mishio


Mixed by Takuro Okada at OKD Sound Studio
Mastered by Alex DeTurk at The Bunker Studio

Mastering Assistant Heoliny Jung at The Bunker Studio

Recorded at  Walk On Soli Studio, OKD Sound Studio, Studio Aoyama, Smalltalk Studio. From July To September 2025 

Art Directed and Designed by Tetsuya Nagato

Photographs by　Katsuhide Morimoto


English Consultation by Moe Ishii

Management by Takayuki Tashiro(Lemon House Inc.),Sachiko Fukuo(Lemon House Inc.)



Executive Producer by Takayuki Tashiro(Lemon House Inc.)
 

https://x.com/mishio_mai
https://playmaimishio.bandcamp.com/music

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THE QUESTIONS - Best Answer

THE QUESTIONS - Best Answer

released December 5, 2025 
THE QUESTIONS formed in Koza, Okinawa in 2019, featuring the talented Chelio (SIX). Their original pop-infused songs blend rock, punk, and garage rock, and—together with their wild stage presence— have made them unforgetable to anyone who sees them live. Last year, the power trio even provided the soundtrack for a Ryukyu Nissan commercial—appearing in it themselves.

Now, it’s Time for their debut LP: “Best Answer”! The album is incredibly catchy and versatile. From wild, lo-fi punk instrumentals like “Beehive!!” and “Howling Bowl”, to cool pop-punk tracks like “I Want You”, “45”, and “QuesSons-theme”. There are also danceable garage punk songs like “Brighton Beach”, “Koi no yokan”, and “Yoakenotori ga naita”. The track “I am I” references the SONICS' guitar sound and adds cool Japanese female vocals, screams, and harmonies.
The album also includes two wild, punky cover versions: the R&B classic “I Got My Mojo Working”, and a charming yet incredibly cool take on Jacques Dutronc’s “Les Cactus”. And with “Honey Pye”, they even deliver a catchy off-beat tune with a feel-good pop-punk ajtude.
This album is top-quality Japanese rock—from beginning to end!

https://soundflatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-questions-best-answer

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THE LET'S GO's - Tracks For Lucks! -SWAMP BAG SESSIONS-

THE LET'S GO's - Tracks For Lucks! -SWAMP BAG SESSIONS-

It's a very first cover mini-album from Tokyo’s rock’n’roll trio THE LET’S GO’s.
In celebration of our upcoming EU & UK tour, we paid tribute to the music that has inspired us across eras and borders. From British punk and classic rock to French pop and beyond, these songs have been reimagined with our own garage-punk spirit and Japanese rock energy.
This album captures the raw excitement of our live sound while honoring the timeless legacy of these iconic artists.

released September 12, 2025 

https://theletsgos.bandcamp.com/music
https://theletsgos.jimdofree.com/
https://x.com/THELETSGOs
https://www.facebook.com/the0252
https://www.youtube.com/@TheLetsGosShow

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Soda Pops - Sweet Nothing

Soda Pops - Sweet Nothing

Bubbling with bright riffs and bittersweet vibes, Soda Pops bring a sugar-coated chaos with their garage pop tunes with distorted guitars, tongue-in-cheek lyrics about serious issues like substance abuse & mental health problems, sing-along hooks, and enough sweet nothings to keep your heart warm while it breaks.
released December 2, 2025

Cherry Twist - lyrics, vocals, cover art
Candy Crash - music, all the instruments, backing vocals
Ville Valavuo - recording, mixing, mastering 

https://sodapopsgogo.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-nothing

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Ginger Root - SHINBANGUMI

Ginger Root - SHINBANGUMI

released September 13, 2024 
Step inside the world of Ginger Root. Cameron Lew makes it easy to do so; every considered detail is his own manifestation, written, designed, and executed as an all-encompassing diorama of sound and sight. A multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter, and visual artist from Southern California, Lew has crafted his project steadily since 2017, inviting a fervent and growing legion of fans into storylines drawn across mediums: captivating albums with accompanying films and globe-spanning tours. The Ginger Root sound — handmade yet immaculately polished synth-pop, alt-disco, boogie, and soul — takes shape through Lew's lens as an Asian-American growing up enamored by 1970s and '80s music, specifically the creative and cultural dialogue between Japanese City Pop and its Western counterparts from French Pop to Philly Soul to Ram-era McCartney. He spins his retro-minded influences and proliferates savvily in the present, synthesizing a songwriter's wit, an editor's eye, and a producer’s resource into something singular and modern. SHINBANGUMI, his long-awaited third LP, and Ghostly International debut set for physical release in 2024 with a visual album component, translates roughly to a new season of a show. It finds Lew more poised, idiosyncratic, and intentional than ever in a new chapter of life, unlocking "exactly what Ginger Root should sound and feel like," he says. "In terms of instrumentation and musicality, it's the first time that I felt very confident and comfortable with what everything should be comprised of. On the more personal side, I'm coming out of the last four years of writing, touring, and living as a different person; SHINBANGUMI is a platform to showcase my new self."


https://www.gingerrootmusic.com/
https://gingerroot.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/gingerrootmusic/
https://x.com/gingerrootmusic

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BB BOMB - Practice Songs

BB BOMB - Practice Songs

A Taichung-based Taiwanese band, known as a classic Taiwanese punk band, was formed in 2003, a rare year for female punk bands. It originated from the art department of a university. After multiple lineup changes, their
songs are driven by a female perspective, with tight, direct, and fast structures. The melodies and vocals are full of the unique sense of life that reflects the experience of Taiwanese women.

This album is made in partnership between Damnably records and JDBG records featuring previously released ep's and tracks 4, 7,13 & 15 are new.
released October 3, 2025

Producer｜Slater C［1、2、5、10、12、14］, JDBG records, and BB BOMB
Recording｜Ippei Suda at Yotsubashi LM Studio［3、4、6、7、8、9、11、13、15］,Slater C at Rebel sound studio［1、2、5、10、12、14］
Recording Assistant｜Leon Zheng［1、2、5、10、12、14］
Mixing Engineer｜Ippei Suda at Yotsubashi LM Studio［3、4、6、7、8、9、11、13、15］,Slater C at Rebel sound studio［1、2、5、10、12、14］
Mastering｜Ippei Suda at Yotsubashi LM Studio
Backing Vocals｜Hsu Pei Hsing, Iven Chang, Sanyoo Yang
Art Design｜Sanyoo Yang
Lyrics Translation (English) by Calvin Jordan, Annapeen
Lyrics Translation(Japanese)｜Dawang Huang
Songs/lyrics｜Hsu Pei Hsing
Composition｜BB BOMB

Released by Damnably Records in partnership with JDGB Records.
Copyright & Publishing Damnably 2025 under license from JDBG Records 

https://bbbombband.bandcamp.com/music
https://x.com/bbbombbandTW
https://www.youtube.com/@BBBombband

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THE MOLICE - PLANETS

THE MOLICE - PLANETS

released October 31, 2025

THE MOLICE :
Rinko ( Vocal & Rhythm Guitar )
Yuzuru ( Guitar )
Paro ( Drums )

Produced by THE MOLICE
Recorded at Chiron Audio Japan
Mixed and Mastered by Hirofumi Katsumoto ( Chiron Audio )
Recording Engineer : Hirofumi Katsumoto ( Chiron Audio )

Art Direction & Design by Rinko
Photo by Lance Claypool
Additional Musicians : William Jackson( Bass ) 


https://molice.bandcamp.com/music
https://molice.bandcamp.com/merch
https://themolice.com/
https://www.facebook.com/molice.music
https://twitter.com/Molice_News
https://twitter.com/MOLICE_VOICE
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2iAaXmbKQdiERa1WcuEQll?si=YCjiGHR_TiumBMECbdUtIw
https://www.youtube.com/c/THEMOLICE

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moja - I'm hungry !!

moja - I'm hungry !!

 

Tokyo-based drum and bass duo Moja return with their most visceral release yet

Moja embrace natural sonic energy over lyrical storytelling with their newest ‘I’m Hungry’. Japanese duo strips rock down to its purest form – distortion, rhythm, and chemistry – creating a wall of sound that is both abrasive and hypnotic. “Our music has no romantic lyrics. Nor does it have gentle words that can soothe someone. It’s about feeling the beat, the swell of the riffs, the collision of sounds, and the moments when the emotions of Moja and the audience intersect and spark a chemical reaction”, explains the band.

This is raw sonic assault, built on the primal dialogue of bass and drums. No gimmicks, no filler – just energy that erupts with unrelenting intensity. According to Masumi (drums): “A world that makes your blood boil and your body move – that is everything in Moja’s music”.
I’m Hungry !! captures the essence of the band’s live performance – uncompromising, untamed, and unfiltered. “What captivates us most in our performances is the kind of raw, blood-stirring energy that makes your whole body come alive – and we believe that’s one of our defining traits. Our songwriting and album production are simply the pure expression of that fire”, says Haru (bass and vocals).

The album serves as a sonic manifesto: a fearless exploration of unrefined emotion – explosive and intimate at once. “The sound we want to create is something that, in the end, only we can truly understand”, shares the band. “Also, since we sometimes start writing songs during the recording process, working just the two of us means there are no time constraints.” – the spirit of DIY culture united with the rich Japanese noise-rock culture rose on the upcoming LP. Recorded by Haru himself, it helped the band to remain in control on both dynamic changes as well as the quality of their work.

The first single “Oh My God!!” unleashes that chaos – a sharp, urgent track that sets the tone for the album. With its distorted throbbing bassline and relentless drumming, it’s both an introduction and a warning: Moja are here to shake the ground beneath your feet. 
released September 26, 2025 

https://hello-moja.bandcamp.com/music
https://x.com/mojabass
https://www.youtube.com/@mojafromTokyo

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ユウレカ [YUREKA] - AltX

ユウレカ [YUREKA] - AltX ユウレカ(Yureka) "OilGang" Music Video 'AltX' is Tokushima born quartet YUREKA's third release and second album. The overarching theme of 'heavy industry' is represented in their newly developed soundscape that combines experimental elements of rock, hardcore and dance that throws its listeners into a rhythmic cacophony of musical elements, inviting you to dance while you head bang and thrash your body through the air.

As you progress through each song, you are drawn deeper into the dark, uninhabited corners of a vast factory landscape to only be confined and comforted by the chorus of fierce guitar and bass stabs that are driven by a menacing drum pulse. Throughout its journey and until its conclusion we hope to drag you through a grim, dark and rusty battlefield to only arrive at a whiplash suffering, tinnitus stricken state of awe and elation.
released January 13, 2024

Cover Art: 김대인 [Kim Dae Inn]
Instagram: @daeinn_kim
A&R by Pajan [Deaf Touch Records] 

https://www.yureka.club/
https://yureka.bandcamp.com/album/altx-2
https://www.youtube.com/@YurekaTokushima
https://x.com/YurekaTokushima

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TEKE::TEKE - Delux

TEKE::TEKE - Delux

 

released September 19, 2025 
TEKE::TEKE is a Montreal-based Japanese psych-rock band composed of guitarists Sei Nakauchi Pelletier & Hidetaka Yoneyama, flutist Yuki Isami and visual artist and vocalist Maya Kuroki, with an added rhythm section for live events.

https://www.teketekeband.com/
https://teketekeband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@TEKETEKEMUSIC

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THE LET'S GO's - Tracks For Lucks!-SWAMP BAG SESSIONS-

THE LET'S GO's - Tracks For Lucks!-SWAMP BAG SESSIONS-

It's a very first cover mini-album from Tokyo’s rock’n’roll trio THE LET’S GO’s.

In celebration of our upcoming EU & UK tour, we paid tribute to the music that has inspired us across eras and borders. From British punk and classic rock to French pop and beyond, these songs have been reimagined with our own garage-punk spirit and Japanese rock energy.

This album captures the raw excitement of our live sound while honoring the timeless legacy of these iconic artists.
released September 12, 2025 
https://theletsgos.bandcamp.com/music
https://theletsgos.jimdofree.com/
https://x.com/THELETSGOs
https://www.facebook.com/the0252
https://www.youtube.com/@TheLetsGosShow

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Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)

Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)

After a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts, Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), marks the band’s first proper studio release. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees front-woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined its predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration. The result is an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel.

For Melancholy Brunettes follows a transformative period in Zauner’s life during which her 2x GRAMMY nominated breakthrough album Jubilee and her bestselling memoir Crying In H Mart catapulted her into the cultural mainstream, delivering on her deepest artistic ambitions. Reflecting on that success, Zauner came to appreciate the irony of desire, which so often commingles bliss and doom. “I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted,” she says. “I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die.”

The plight of Icarus and other such condemned ones lends For Melancholy Brunettes its most persistent theme, the perils of desire. Like light dispersed, its spectral parts take the album’s characters through cycles of temptation, transgression and retribution. On “Orlando in Love” — a riff on John Cheever’s riff on Orlando Innamorato, an unfinished epic made up of 68 ½ cantos by the Renaissance poet Matteo Maria Boiardo — the hero is a well meaning poet who parks his Winnebago by the sea and falls victim to a siren’s call, his 69th canto (even in the lofty realm of classical myth Zauner has a soft spot for innuendo). “Honey Water” plumbs the quiet rage of a woman married to an unfaithful man, watching him cede again and again to lust like a base insect perpetuating its own demise.

Sadness is indeed the dominant emotional key of this record, but it is sadness of a rarified form: the pensive, prescient sadness of melancholy, in which the recognition of life’s essentially tragic character occurs with sensitivity to its fleeting beauty. Zauner finds space enough inside it for glimmers of hope. They are the consolations of mortals that poets before her have called out to and that poets after will continue to rediscover: love and labor, and though they run like tonic resolutions through the record’s many episodes, they sound most saliently on its final song, “Magic Mountain,” an engagement with Thomas Mann’s famous novel of the same name. For her, making any work feels like scaling a mountain, but from the perch of For Melancholy Brunettes, she surveys the future. 
released March 21, 2025 

https://japanesebreakfast.rocks/
https://michellezauner.bandcamp.com/music
https://x.com/jbrekkie
https://www.youtube.com/@JapaneseBreakfast

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T a F F Y - lull

T a F F Y - lull

Japanese indie-pop favourites taffy return with their sixth studio album ‘Lull’ on the 24th January via Club AC30. ‘Lull’ marks the band’s first release since the critically acclaimed 2019 album ‘Deep Dark Creep Love’.
‘Lull’ marks the first material from the band with new guitarist Rio Kato, who brings his own unique, inimitable style to the taffy sound. “He’s great at playing almost any style we choose, yet he has his own approach which turned out perfectly throughout the album. We have the usual taffy gems along with Rio’s style, so it’s taffy but kind of new taffy! I feel that this album is sensitive but quietly powerful,” says vocalist and guitarist Iris. The new album is the result of the coronavirus pandemic back in 2020. “During covid, we sadly lost some great artists and I myself have lost few of my loved ones. Not being able to meet in person for a long period of time, it felt as though it would go on forever. It made me realise who and what really matters to me. All those mixed emotions and feelings went into each and every one of the songs on the album,” she adds.

On the band’s first new material in six years, Iris continues, “I’ve missed the people, places, things, bands, shows, tours, just every little thing that we used to do and have, but at the same time I’ve also felt that everything and everyone was changing and what kept me going through those tough times were the people who showed love to taffy, so I really wanted to deliver the album as in a way of my appreciation.”

From the sweet, beguiling sounds of album title track ‘lull’ and jangly rhythms of ‘ifonly’, to the mesmeric rumblings of dream pop anthem ‘Colour Me’, taffy display a finely-tuned sense for melody. Elsewhere, the impossibly sweet vocals of lead singer Iris glide effortlessly on the charming ‘Prism 45’ before taffy offer an ethereal mixture of distorted guitars, feedback and volume on a tender
cover of R.E.M.’s ‘Hairshirt’.

Forming in 2011, taffy has built a glowing reputation in Japan and the UK within the shoegaze genre pioneered by bands including Ride, Lush, and Slowdive, and has been able to incorporate those influences into their own unique sound, gaining numerous plaudits along the way including The Guardian, NME, Clash and Dork and can count The Charlatan’s Tim Burgess as a fan.

taffy is Iris (vocals and guitars), Ken (drums and chorus), Takeshi (bass and chorus) and Rio (guitar and chorus). 

released January 24, 2025

The album was recorded at Sound Crew Studio, Tokyo with Toshiro Kai, taffy’s “fifth” member, who they have been working with since the band’s debut album ‘Caramel Sunset’, released in 2012. 

https://taffy.bandcamp.com/
https://x.com/taffy8tw
https://www.taffy8.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/taffytheband

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Envy - Eunoia

Envy - Eunoia

Soaring past the 30-year mark as a band, Japan’s envy returns with their 8th studio album, Eunoia. Packed with an abyssal emotional depth and an increasingly eclectic (and seemingly inexhaustible) well of ideas, Eunoia is envy’s most efficiently impactful album of their unbelievably lengthy career. A major personnel shift in 2018 threatened the very existence of envy, but it instead inspired enormous growth and reinvigorated the band on their second album together with this new line-up. As founding member and songwriter, Nobukata Kawai, explains: “The concept of creating the album was to honestly face our own powerlessness. Searching for a little hope, and recording the emotions gained from daily life in a diary-like manner. Even without explaining the songs, Tetsu's lyrics were wonderful and added depth to the piece. It has been six years since the member line-up changed, and the good relationship of trust has been strongly reflected in the work.” envy are an underground institution that has literally inspired entire sub-genres of music.  

Their creative and cultural influence in undeniable, and their legacy was cemented long ago. The fact that they’re still breaking new ground more than three decades in is a testament to the unique and extraordinary power and pull of envy, and Eunoia emits that power and pull with the natural weight and wonder of a total eclipse.
released October 11, 2024 

https://envybandofficial.com/
https://x.com/envybandjpn
https://envy.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/envyOfficial.jpn
https://www.youtube.com/@envyofficial

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