Perfume’s new single “Spending All My Time” comes out on August 15, but right now you can hear a sample of one of the other two songs that will come alongside it. This snippet of “Hurly Burly” takes the first verse and chorus and loops it, but what is there sounds very…intriguing. Eagerly awaiting a…
The top of the J-Pop world remains cemented in place so far in 2012 – the best selling albums and singles have been from all the usual suspects of the Japanese music landscape. AKB48, Ikimono-gakari, EXILE, everything Johnny’s…with a few exceptions, the dominant music of 2012 has been pretty much the same as the last…
“Spring Of Life,” Perfume’s 20th single and first for Universal Music Japan, sold 49,448 copies on the day of its debut, giving the techno-pop trio their highest first-day sales ever. The song also saw digital release in 50 countries, and coinciding with “Spring Of Life’s” release, Universal gave Perfume their very own label, Perfume Records….
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWxFDlufNo”] Here’s a brief clip of the official video for Perfume’s “Spring Of Lie.” Ya know how lots of people are all on about how the members of Perfume are basically robots and easily replaceable? Perfume runs with that idea in a nice touch of self awareness.
And here’s the first output from Perfume on Universal Japan…which sounds a lot like old Perfume. Which, if you have read this blog for a long period of time, know is an absolutely great thing. “Spring Of Life” wastes no time digging its teeth into the Cadbury Egg that is the chorus, a chirpy-and-bright thing….