Universe

Tokyo's STAP Sigh Boys has announced a new album, Universe, out October 31 via BEST PLAY/ VIVID SOUND. The 14-track record stretches his blend of city pop / outsider disco towards the cosmos, balancing Star Trek TNG themes with hard dancefloor-ready energy. The lead singles Uchu Umare, Light(n)ing and Déjà Vu have the vibe of something born from a parallel dimension where Daft Punk didn't release that lame album between Discovery and RAM.

October 31 Tokyo's STAP Sigh Boys has announced his new album Universe, out October 31 via BEST PLAY/VIVID SOUND (digital and CD). The 14-track talkbox-heavy project cements his reputation for threading city pop gloss, outsider disco, and cosmic philosophy into one heady mix. Three lead singles chart the record's thematic scope. The bilingual (English/Japanese) Déjà Vu, sounding like Earth, Wind & Fire having a bad trip at a séance, Light(n)ing - a glittering, highvoltage Discovery-era Daft Punk-styled hard disco love song, and Uchu Umare(All of You Were Born of the Universe), an adrenaline-inducing classic disco space-cult propaganda song. Beyond its main singles, Universe darts between the playful and the profound. Tracks like Maezawa, Take Me to the Moon (Maezawa, Take Me to the Moon) and Ohayo, Sun God (Ohayō, Sun God) splice contemporary pop culture with mythological grandeur, while Empathy and If You Were Here distill the band's more direct, emotional side. The Doldrums, on the other hand, is a John Coltrane doing amphetamines with Thundercat and Scatman John level bizarre neo-jazz detour. The result is a record that folds humour, science, romance, magic, space and pantheism into a widescreen cinematic vision of disco-fueled transcendence.