Until then, Bump of Chicken’s “Butterflies” will be a reminder of the band’s effort to rediscover their sounds amidst the ever-changing music scene.
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Bump of Chicken may want to avoid full commitment into dance tracks a la “Butterfly” and go for something like “Fighter”, the best track of the album that sounds (kind of) relevant to the current upbeat trend while retaining the emotional strength the band is best at.
Bump of Chicken excels in delivering emotional tracks via Fujiwara’s vocal and beautiful lyrics, and this doesn’t translate well into EDM. Some reordering of the tracks may be able to make “Butterflies” a much better album.īut the main problem with Bump of Chicken’s venture into dance numbers may be the different way emotion is conveyed in the genre. Songs like “Houseki ni Natta Hi”, or the folksy “Kodoku no Gasshou” were decent songs but the momentum they build were not met well by the subsequent tracks in the album. “Butterflies” alternates almost constantly between fast, upbeat songs and solemn, contemplative ones. It’s a shame that the inclusion of said songs weren’t handled well enough, disrupting the overall flow of the album. It’s almost eerie how the song reminds me so much with Coldplay’s “X Marks The Spot”, the hidden track of “A Head Full of Dreams” (on the topic of hidden tracks, there’s also one in “Butterflies”. That sound was successfully explored further in “You were here”, a haunting track where the band stripped all excessive instruments, leaving a single guitar strum and a thumping heartbeat. Most of the album’s better tracks are Bump of Chicken’s trademark slow rock ballads such as “Colony” and “Ryuusei Gun”. doesn’t fully abandon their slow roots in “Butterflies”, though. Both are brave efforts that are quite easy on the ears, but ultimately fail to make a lasting impression. “Butterflies” were decorated with all sorts of electronic sounds that are most apparent in the dancey “Butterfly” or the autotune-fueled “Colony”.
Bump of Chicken’s effort to tap into the genre starts subtly with 2014’s “RAY”, but they never went all out until this 8th album. In 1999, Bump of Chicken released their first album, Flame Vein, on High Line Records. In 1996, their song 'Danny' won an award on 96TFM.
In the realms of mainstream bands, Sekai no Owari’s 2014 hit “Dragon Night” may be the prime example of the phenomena. Bump of Chicken's first performance was in 1994, during their ninth grade cultural festival, playing a cover of The Beatles' version of 'Twist and Shout'. Visit my Website for DDL and for more releases. Jupiter was the first major-label album release by Japanese rock band Bump of Chicken, but despite this it sees the group retaining the punk and indie rock style that characterized its predecessors The Living Dead and the mini-album Flame Vein. In recent years, EDM sounds were quite prominent in the mainstream Japanese music scene (as usual, Japan is a bit lagging in terms of music trends). 8th Album by BUMP OF CHICKEN released 2016.
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