the brilliant green – THE SWINGIN’ SIXTIES

Can you believe Bye Bye Mr Mug was released 17 years ago? It’s crazy. Kawase Tomoko will be turning 40 next year too…

On 23rd July, Buriguri will be releasing THE SWINGIN’ SIXTIES, a self-cover best of album featuring a bunch of reworkings of their best tracks plus one new song A Little World – PV above. There will be love there ～愛のあ場所～ has already gotten a pre-release on JP iTunes and it’s great!

Tracklist:
1.There will be love there～愛のある場所～
2.冷たい花
3.You & I
4.Rock’n Roll
5.Hello Another Way-それぞれの場所-
6.Stand by me
7.Bye Bye Mr.Mug
8.そのスピードで
9.Blue Daisy
10.長いため息のように
11.A Little World

The special site for TSS!

100 Favourite Japanese albums: #047 – LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles. the brilliant green (2001)

I was vaguely aware of Buriguri’s existence but only really gave them a go after they were featured in an issue of Time magazine. And I was instantly hooked by what I heard on their third album Los Angeles., hard riffs pushing a poppy, shoegaze sound (I would later learn that earlier albums sounded…virtually nothing like that). It was a style that the band were sadly never to revisit – frontwoman Kawase Tomoko’s dalliances with her Tommy _____6 alter-egos in the intervening years seemed to influence BuriGuri’s sound, watering it down to generic pop-rock by the time 2010’s Blackout rolled around.

Refer:
Kuroi Tsubasa
angel song PV
Hello Another Way PV