Kanjysei Outou Seyo

Artist: Eastern Youth
Label: Toys Factory
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988061881829
ASIN: B00005LCRM

Release Date: 2001-08-08

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Customer Reviews:

thank you, japan.......2004-01-14

Eastern Youth writes incredibly emotional yet pretention free epic indie rock songs. I will dare not call them emo, because of all the negotive connotations that the term might provide, Eastern Youth showcase none of them. Guitars crash and simmer like Siamese Dream era Pumpkins, the bass player plays like an intricate lead guitarist and the drums are ferocious and precise. Eastern Youth sounds like the ideal 3 piece rock band. I believe that this is the band's 5th album, and in my opinion it might be their best overall. Compared to the excellence of albums number 4 and 6, that might be quite a stretch, but I will stand by it. This album presents the band at their most intense and appears to act as a bridge between the more poppy elements of their work with their rawer sound of their earlier albums. The band continues to improve, but the intensity of track 5 here, "kakato naru," will likely be impossible for anyone to ever recreate. And with the likes that this band is associated (Cursive, The Blood Brothers,) it is quite a bold statement to make. However, I have the belief that as Eastern Youth continues to release albums and promote themselves in the US, they will continue to be recognized as an incredibly important band. The lyrics might be in japanese, but this intense, emotional rock music is the farthest thing from manufactured J-pop that I have ever heard.

Key tracks: 1. Yoake no Uta
5. Kakato Naru
6. Seijaku ga Moeru
8. Ao no Fuukei

I listen to Eastern Youth every day.......2003-10-01

I first heard Eastern Youth about a year ago on their "8 Teeth to Eat You" split with Cursive and I've listened to them literally every day since then. Between the five Eastern Youth albums I have, there are only 2 English words in the lyrics (and you can't hardly tell they're English), but the vocals are delivered so well that I don't even notice they're Japanese any more. Though this isn't the band's best album, it's a good starting point and, in my opinion, is a better example of their music than the songs that are on the Cursive split. I saw Eastern Youth open for Cursive recently and I'm guessing that 90% of the crowd had never heard their music before. Though they were initially stunned that the band performed and addressed the crowd only in Japanese, by the end of the second song, the crowd was completely into it. The music is very energetic and often very emotional. Honestly, I enjoyed their show more than Cursive's--and that's saying a lot.

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