お気に入りなのに随分前に無くしてしまったCD。買えてよかったぁ良い音楽は色褪せませんね。爽快で海に行くつもりにやるほどドライブに最適だと思います。 映画「PとJK」の挿入歌になってて、懐かしくなり購入しました。 平成初期…初めて聴いた時は日本人なのに英語で歌うの?と思ってしまったけどすっかりはまってヘビーローテーションしてました。9曲目Sending to your Heart 大好きです。どの曲も気付くと口ずさんでるほど馴染んでます。
5つ星のうち4.0The sound of Japanese teenagers (young, alive,) in love with mid-80s UK Indie
2016年5月20日に英国でレビュー済み
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If you know your mid-80s British indie of specifically the Postcard Records variety then titles like 'Three Cheers For Our Side' and 'Goodbye, Our Pastels Badges' should prompt a nod of recognition. While I don't have much knowledge of Orange Juice, Haircut 100 or The Pastels, not knowing hasn't gotten in the way of me enjoying this LP.
If like me you've come to Flipper's Guitar through Cornelius (Keigo Oyamada) then you may at first find the straight-up guitar pop of this record a bit of a shock. But stick with it and check the second half of the LP and you find Oyamada at his most charging and pure-pop. A few exceptions aside this album is all uptempo-jangle-C86 guitar pop with a commercial sheen. Cornelius fans may be hoping for mashed-up genres and strange juxtapositions but instead I recommend taking this LP in the spirit it was intended: a set of alternately bracing or sweet genre homages. While it may be the group's debut some of the material is their best and irresistible.
Check out 'Hello', 'Coffee-Milk Crazy', 'My Red Shoes Story', 'Sending To Your Heart', 'Goodbye, Our Pastels Badges' and 'The Chime Will Ring'. These last three are really the heart of the LP and run together like a live set.
All in all, if you've listened to Cornelius pre-Fantasma and you've liked it, this album is further step-removed from The First Question Award, but possibly his most vigorous and straight-up enjoyable LP.