Japanese Progressive Pop/Indie Rock Band Jyocho Newest Album Let's Promise to be Happy Topshelf Records LP Pre-order Begins on December 7th
Kyoto, Japan (December 7, 2022)─Japanese progressive pop, indie rock band JYOCHO is set to release their newest full-length album, Let's Promise to Be Happy via Topshelf Records and the vinyl pre-order has begun on December 7th, the 6th anniversary of the band formation.
The eight-track project was written and produced by founding member Daijirō Nakagawa and recorded in Japan at StudioSHIKARI and Studio 246 KYOTO.
The album includes the leading singles such as the debut single “Gather the Lights” (released Mar 24th, 2021), featured on Artic Drones' end-of-year list, “Top 10 Tracks of 2021: Math Rock, Mathy Prog & Indie Rock,” along with the second single “All the Same” (released Nov 10th, 2021) and the track “Measure the Dawn” (released Dec. 22nd, 2021).
In August 2022, the band announced “All the Same” would be the ending theme song for the Japanese TV anime series, Banished From the Brave Man’s Group, I Decided to Lead a Slow Life in the Back Country, which was introduced at New York Comic Con in October and started airing that same month. Anime News Network (8/30/21) praised “All the Same” as “…an impressive acoustic guitar melody and flute tone…The song's technical yet spacious and majestic sound adds beautiful colors to the ending.” The full-length version of the single was released Nov. 10th, 2021, accompanied by the premiere of its official music video (click here to watch).
Porter Robinson likes JYOCHO and Daijirō Nakagawa's music and shares a quote, for the obi strip coming with the Topshelf Records vinyl, saying “JYOCHO make music that is one-of-a-kind. Daijirō Nakagawa's projects always feel so wistful and effortlessly beautiful, never getting lost in their own complexity but instead always enriched by it. "The End of Sorrow" makes me feel something I can't describe.”
The LP pre-order begins at 7:00a.m on December 7th(EST).
https://www.topshelfrecords.com/products/720962-JYOCHO-lets-promise-to-be-happy
JYOCHO is releasing a new EP “As the Gods Say e.p” digitally via No Big Deal Records on January 20, 2022, featuring the self-titled track chosen as the theme song for the Netflix series Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre.
In celebration of the new EP release, JYOCHO has revealed their new artist image illustrated by Junji Ito.
And they will be having two performances in Japan: February 4th at Shibuya WWWX in Tokyo with a Topshelf-mate band, LITE, and February 18th at UMEDA Shangri-La in Osaka with another band from Kyoto, jizue.
Album Tracklist:
1. New Reminiscences
2. All the Same
3. Gather the Lights
4. Stay in the Circle
5. Turn into the Blue
6. The End of Sorrow
7. Measure the Dawn
8. Never Forget
The eight-track project was written and produced by founding member Daijirō Nakagawa and recorded in Japan at StudioSHIKARI and Studio 246 KYOTO.
The album includes the leading singles such as the debut single “Gather the Lights” (released Mar 24th, 2021), featured on Artic Drones' end-of-year list, “Top 10 Tracks of 2021: Math Rock, Mathy Prog & Indie Rock,” along with the second single “All the Same” (released Nov 10th, 2021) and the track “Measure the Dawn” (released Dec. 22nd, 2021).
In August 2022, the band announced “All the Same” would be the ending theme song for the Japanese TV anime series, Banished From the Brave Man’s Group, I Decided to Lead a Slow Life in the Back Country, which was introduced at New York Comic Con in October and started airing that same month. Anime News Network (8/30/21) praised “All the Same” as “…an impressive acoustic guitar melody and flute tone…The song's technical yet spacious and majestic sound adds beautiful colors to the ending.” The full-length version of the single was released Nov. 10th, 2021, accompanied by the premiere of its official music video (click here to watch).
Porter Robinson likes JYOCHO and Daijirō Nakagawa's music and shares a quote, for the obi strip coming with the Topshelf Records vinyl, saying “JYOCHO make music that is one-of-a-kind. Daijirō Nakagawa's projects always feel so wistful and effortlessly beautiful, never getting lost in their own complexity but instead always enriched by it. "The End of Sorrow" makes me feel something I can't describe.”
The LP pre-order begins at 7:00a.m on December 7th(EST).
https://www.topshelfrecords.com/products/720962-JYOCHO-lets-promise-to-be-happy
JYOCHO is releasing a new EP “As the Gods Say e.p” digitally via No Big Deal Records on January 20, 2022, featuring the self-titled track chosen as the theme song for the Netflix series Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre.
In celebration of the new EP release, JYOCHO has revealed their new artist image illustrated by Junji Ito.
And they will be having two performances in Japan: February 4th at Shibuya WWWX in Tokyo with a Topshelf-mate band, LITE, and February 18th at UMEDA Shangri-La in Osaka with another band from Kyoto, jizue.
Album Tracklist:
1. New Reminiscences
2. All the Same
3. Gather the Lights
4. Stay in the Circle
5. Turn into the Blue
6. The End of Sorrow
7. Measure the Dawn
8. Never Forget
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