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They once called him "neo soul melted in a microwave" "a one-man
Random Access Memories" and "Mac DeMarco of Koenji", but "Chord", the masterpiece new album from the mysterious, illusory "STAP Sigh Boys" (released September 20th on CD, download and streaming) sees him taking yet another musical detour.
Concise. Acoustic. Sentimental. Starts fun, ends beautifully. Chord
fuses hi-octane pop music with disco, jazz and vintage singersongwriter soft rock. The album is a recently re-earthed cassette mixtape
of songs recorded by STAP Sigh Boys on the cusp of 1970, just
before he was frozen in time for 50 years.
It starts with "Rodeo", a piano pop stomper, sounding like Ben Folds on Ritalin, swiftly followed by "Lovefool" - an ever-evolving acoustic digifunk banger, before segueing into disco-mode with tracks like "Let's Go!" and the Ginger Root tinged "Setouchi Magnet'.
On side B, the cassette takes a jazzy turn. The inhumanly intense bass solos of "Never-ending Lust for Chord" and "Chord", or the sweet bossa nova pop of "Melody" and "Sing a Song" are counterbalanced by the emotive electro-acoustic soul tracks "We Climbed a Mountain" and "H e l l o".
In the year that Elton John retires and Burt Bacharach passed away,
Chord seems to have arrived just in time to fill the gap.
The album is preceded by the quintessential sunshine pop single,
"Verbose Inroads" on August 23rd (Wed), including a collection of
Chord outtakes as b-sides.

Latest Rank In

Chord

Apple Music • J-Pop Top Albums • Germany • TOP 162

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Chord

Apple Music • J-Pop Top Albums • Italy • TOP 20 • 9 Mar 2024 Apple Music • J-Pop Top Albums • Netherlands • TOP 30 • 12 Jul 2024 Apple Music • J-Pop Top Albums • United Kingdom • TOP 35 • 19 Dec 2023 Apple Music • J-Pop Top Albums • Chile • TOP 58 • 31 May 2024 Apple Music • J-Pop Top Albums • Canada • TOP 77 • 10 Jun 2024 Apple Music • J-Pop Top Albums • Turkey • TOP 81 • 29 Dec 2023 Apple Music • J-Pop Top Albums • France • TOP 94 • 27 Jun 2024 Apple Music • J-Pop Top Albums • Indonesia • TOP 151 • 30 Dec 2023

Lovefool

Apple Music • J-Pop Top Songs • Latvia • TOP 68 • 4 Jul 2024

Setoochizisyaku

Apple Music • J-Pop Top Songs • Jordan • TOP 50 • 23 Oct 2023 Apple Music • J-Pop Top Songs • Egypt • TOP 87 • 3 May 2024 Apple Music • J-Pop Top Songs • Latvia • TOP 93 • 16 Feb 2024 Apple Music • J-Pop Top Songs • Cambodia • TOP 165 • 5 Jan 2024 Apple Music • J-Pop Top Songs • Luxembourg • TOP 189 • 28 Dec 2023

Past Playlist In

Setoochizisyaku

Apple Music • Tokyo Highway • 29 Sep 2023

Artist Profile

  • STAP Sigh Boys

    一度もライブをしたことがなかったにもかかわらず、FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL’21 Rookie A GoGoに出演。 2021年11月23日にデビューアルバム『Hey』をリリースし、2022年4月29日にコンセプチュアルディスコアルバム『Aino』をリリース。 「電子レンジで溶かしたネオソウル」「1人ランダム・アクセス・メモリーズ(ダフト・パンク)」「高円寺のマックデマルコ」と評される。 影絵、腹話術、魔術、パーティーゲームを盛り込んだシュールでインタラクティブなライブを数多く行い、ライブシーンでも高い評価を得ている。 もともと1970年の大阪万博アイルランド館で働くため来日しましたが、東京の築地市場に行った際に冷凍庫に閉じ込められてしまい、豊洲に移転した時にようやく発見されました。

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