Perhaps it was overly paranoid, but it’s great to see Tricot still chugging along. For a second last year, it looked like lead vocalist / guitarist Ikkyu Nakajima could pivot into more proper J-pop territory, due to the surprise success of the variety-show-fueled band Genie High and just a greater turn to being a more…
Tricot’s twisting and turning approach to rock tends to grab the most attention, but it’s the emotional fierceness lurking underneath all those tempo changes that really punches. If the music itself can sometimes feel a little too plotted out, it’s balanced out by Ikumi Nakajima’s singing, which allows for more roughness around the edges that…
Ever-busy band tricot (now a our-piece as they’ve found a drummer) appeared on Wowow’s Live Tips program recently, presumably to offer up some live tips…and some performances. One of those was a live version of a new song called “Boom Ni Notte” (“On The Boom” in English), now available for all to see. It follows…
Year-end list season has become a kind of exhausting exercise, at least when giving a cursory glance at the social media feeds of music fans, industry types, writers and more. Reaction to bigger rankings tends to be more “sure, fine” then excited, while Resident Advisor even made a big deal about dropping lists all together…
It’s pretty crazy how, like, notable Tricot have gotten over the past year? This was a group that was mostly overlooked by Japanese media, until they started getting more Western recognition…which allowed them to get that lovely reverse-import effect. They aren’t Babymetal-huge or anything, but they’ve moved up the ranks considerably. And new album 3…