Ahhhhh, feel that crispness in the air? It’s an indie-pop autumn, alright. And one of Tokyo’s finest twee-leaning outfits around, Boyish, have a new album out on Dead Funny Records next month. “Sketchbook,” above, is the first taste of Sketch For 8000 Days Of Moratorium (!!!!) and it is a longer-than-usual look at how they are approaching their latest album.
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New Boyish: “Sketchbook”
Sunday afternoon seems like the optimal time to share a new song from Tokyo indie-pop outfit Boyish…”Sketchbook” is an unhurried number from a group usually operating at a far skipper pace. What it lacks in urgency it makes up for in nailing a certain type of fuzzy sound. “Sketchbook” could ultimately shave off a minute and be a little better off, but it’s not a bad check-in from Boyish. Listen above.
New Boyish: “Sadness And Arcade”
A few days after gushing about their new album, here comes Boyish with a new song. “Sadness And Arcade” is them at their most, errr, boyish…bright, peppy melody tempered by those muffled vocals. Nothing sea changing, but good nonetheless. Listen below.
New Boyish Video: “Crazy For You”
Due to shifting work priorities and a general time crunch (plus, still gotta burn through the new Arrested Development guys), albums tend to get lost in the shuffle around here. We make time for stuff like May.e and (as you’ll see soon enough) Moscow Club…but lots fall through the crack. Like Tokyo indie-pop darlings Boyish, whose debut album Everything You Say came out on Dead Funny Records last month. It’s a predictably solid listen, showcasing the outfit’s twee chops, a nice summation of what they’ve been doing for the past year. It also costs about $20 (those other two albums I mentioned? Free online.) and I didn’t get my paycheck until last week. So here we are…I finally have a copy of the new Boyish album, and I can confirm…it’s good!
To remind you to go hunt it down, here’s the new video for “Crazy For You,” a song that’s been around a while but still sounds sweet to our ears. Enjoy it…and the found-footage video…now.
Boyish Prep First Full-Length Everything You Say, Listen To “Crazy For You” Now
I’m not silly enough to think indie-pop music will ever go away completely. As long as there are romantic boys and girls with guitars and access to twee.net (so, a lot of people), this stuff will always be around, all over the world (see the great Fear Of Men album that came out this year). Still, it feels like the Japanese boom in indie-pop that flared up last year should be over now, a new trend replacing the simply-strummed songs that have been a SoundCloud staple over the past 12 months. Thing is, it isn’t going anywhere…more and more of these acts pop up all the time, and longer-running outfits releasing proper albums. It is a big step up for these bands, jumping from the bedroom to the shelves of stores across Japan.
One of our favorites, Tokyo’s reverb-loving Boyish, will release their first proper album on Dead Funny Records on March 27. It’s called Everything You Say (that’s the title art above), and it features a lot of great Boyish songs that have been floating around over the past year like “Cupid,” The Hidden Secrets,” “Waiting In The Summer” and more. It practically plays like a best-of for the young group, a proper collection of their finest work from 2012 put into one place. “Crazy For You” appeared on an EP last year, but on Everything You Say appears in a new recording that sounds a tad crisper than what came last year. That said, the song still captures everything good about Boyish and Japan’s indie-pop scene; lovely, melancholic lyrics, a good bounce and a sense of DIY-ness pervading the whole track (can a voice sound DIY? Because Boyish’s vocals sure do). Listen below, and grab the album when it drops.