Many merry days indeed

So, now its time once again for an artist review, yes im fully aware that its late but ive never been one for keeping schedules...


anyway this week is...


メリー (merii) MERRY.



L to R: Yuu, Tetsu, Gara, nero, kenichi

Formed: Tokyo 2001

Style: You name it they've done it, acid jazz, jazz rock, ska, punk, blues, classic rock, surf rock, rock, metal. But their prevailing theme is RETROCK - a clever portmanteau of retro rock, which is accurate.

Members: Gara (vocals) Kenichi, Yuu (guitars) Tetsu (bass) and Nero (drums)


I cannot stress enough the immense awesomeness of this band. Every single one of their albums is worth buying.

Its hard choosing the best songs on each album, because in many cases its all of them!

Discography:

Albums -

Gendai stoic (2003) - Best tracks: Bluesy night, tasogare restaurant, yasashisa kid


Modern Garde (2004) - Best tracks: Japanese Modernist, Renai kousaten, Haraiso

Koseiha blend classic ~Oldies Tracks~(2005) - Best tracks: Tic-tac, R246

nu chemical rhetoric (2005) - Best tracks: Kubitsuri rondo, shambara, atashi wa sute neko

Peep show (2006) - Best tracks: Kyousou carnival, kousou biru no ue de last dance, retro future

M.E.R.R.Y. (2007) - Best tracks: Blind romance, Last snow, hirahira tonderu

The new singles Tozasareta Rakuen and Midnight Shangrila were in all honesty a bit naff. BUT the tozasareta rakuen riffs are brilliant as always it was just the vocals on these singles really, but 喜劇のタブー on Toza single was good, the midnight shangrila was well, one new song, which was terrible, and the other was a rerecording of a previous song which sounded no different, good thing it was only sold at one gig...

Basically this band is extremely hard to explain, their mixture of all of these genres creates an "undeniably fresh" sound which is obviously very original and is MASS AWESOME! You have to check them out, even if you dont even like japanese music, give it a try, this is one band where im sure everyone will find at least one song they like (well, apart from deaf people)

Theyve got a new live dvd out in July, cant wait ive preordered it already :P

check this out:
http://www.myspace.com/merrymate - they got a few songs on there.
and their official website - http://www.merrymate.jp/

Kubitsuri rondo PV: