Release Date: 2026/05/16
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Dashing Return Boy releases his long-awaited new album 'Kore Tsukaen WA'.
I bought it, but it was different from what I expected. I thought I could use it, but I couldn't use it at all. But maybe what really couldn't be used wasn't the product, but myself yesterday. Ah. Bittersweet memories...
This work is an album that captures 'everyday life not going smoothly' from the unique perspective of Dashing Return Boy, including dreams of returns, exchanges, expired warranties, initial defects, and wrong sizes.
Even though the songs are so casual that they make you laugh, for some reason, they linger in your heart a little. It seems playful, but it's quite honest. Clutching the receipts of life, aiming for half-price items. It's a life album for those who go through the day getting items but still return them-an album that cannot be returned.
Kore Tsukaen WA. But even in days that can't be used, there's unexpectedly some flavor.
Sassou Henpin Boy is a solo artist who turns the everyday sense of discomfort, the melancholy of working people, and just a bit of offbeat humor into music. The origin of the name comes from what he calls a 'pretty troublesome realization': the most important things in life can't be returned. You can return what you bought, but you can't return the time that's passed, a word you said too much, a wrong decision you made at work, or a life choice made on impulse. While he seems to walk through these irreversible days in a breezy manner, in reality, he carries them along quite a bit. His musical style is unique, blending city pop, rock, folk, and the feeling of a canned coffee on the way home from work. He specializes in songs that support those who aren't flashy heroes but are just trying to get through the day quietly, unnoticed by anyone. Typical themes include the emptiness after work, late-night convenience stores, the silence at the returns counter, apologies that didn't come out right, and the kind of half-hopeful, half-resigned feeling of saying, 'Well, I guess I'll go again tomorrow.' About his own music, he says, 'In a life you can't return, at least I want to keep the receipt.' Is he breezy, or does he want to return everything? That contradiction is exactly what Sassou Henpin Boy's music is all about.