Bullshit bullshit BULLSHIT!!! Hey Mego scam artists, I'm calling yourbluff. After falling for the Michiko Kusaki scam pulled by the cohortsover at Angelika Koehlermann, I don't believe the story this time. Irefuse to think there's a cute Japanese drunk model making pretty musiclike this, suddenly discovered by Peter Rehberg of Mego at an artexhibit in Tokyo. Without a doubt, this is yet another balding Austrianguy who's as sick of making nerdy faceless, structureless glitch-boyambient laptop fuckery as I'm sick of hearing it. Don't get me wrong,Tujiko Noriko, or whoever is behind this, has a strong starting album,with shiny melodies, matched by undeniably cute vocals and/or distortedbreakbeats depending on which track. It's wonderful and captivating,and indeed quite literally a breath of fresh air, with orchestralsamples amidst the piano sounds on the Japanese-titled fifth track. Anorgan melody, "Tokyo" opens the second half of the disc with a songwhich strangely reminds me of a Mark Eitzel b-side from the "TakeCourage" 7"! From there, the sound gets somewhat tired, making me thinkthe release of this was rather premature, pulling out all the strongcards a bit too soon. Noriko's voice falters out of tune and almostbecomes unlistenable on "Girl Meets Boy" and struggles to recover on"Differencia." The rest of the disc never fully captures the energyfrom the first half of the disc but still ends quite gracefully. Boyswith yellow fever would certainly fall head over heels for a disc likethis.
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