kabinsuki:

i saw this album in a record shop the other day and had to find out what it was

Japan’s transitional pop years, where girls had most fun! Those lucky enough to have been there recently are saying that Tokyo boasts the most happening music scene In the world: fearlessly experimental and energised. It wasn’t always that way, Japan boasting a conservative, traditional musical outlook until the 60s, when the country’s pop culture started looking to the West after The Beatles made their mark, replacing sanitised MOR with their own twist on beat music, dance crazes and even psych. This led to (mainly female) superstars, exponents of what was called Group Sound and audacious remakes of British and American hits. The results could be strangely exotic, unintentionally comical or downright weird.

please give it a listen it is glorious

New music finds are always fun.