Aprils

Tokyo-based indie pop band the Aprils shaped in 1999 centered round the core regular membership of Imai Kentaro about guitars and vocals, feminine vocalist/synth player Iguchi Miho, and drummer Shotokuji Yuuki, with VJ Nakama Norihisa joining later on like a support member for the group’s live performances. Their audio was, right away, heavily influenced from the 1990s Shibuya kei motion, particularly the music group Flipper’s Acoustic guitar, whose combination of dreamy, Seaside Boys-influenced pop and quirky digital embellishments is carefully echoed in the Aprils’ personal music. The group’s sound and affects appropriate the music picture in Tokyo in the first 2000s, using the group quickly getting regarded as perfect purveyors from the neo Shibuya kei and “chiptune” musical design, along with YMCK, Hazel Nut products Chocolates, and Plus-Tech Press Box, among whom, Wakiya Takeshi, became a member of the Aprils like a support guitarist. In the beginning the Aprils became a member of causes with techno-pop label Usagi-Chang Information release a Astro, a synth-heavy debut mini-album combining dance beats, 8-little bit computer noises, and breezy, melodic songwriting. The next 12 months the Aprils paid tribute with their idols by adding a cover edition from the track “Blue Shinin’ Quick Celebrity” to Flipper’s acoustic guitar cover recording The Sound of Softly!, Vol. 2: A Tribute to Flipper’s Acoustic guitar on Softly! Information. 2004 also noticed the group make the proceed to Softly! long term using the launch of their full-length debut recording Skillet Da, which extended the Aprils’ musical palette, because they played with components of hip-hop, home, and rock and roll music. In 2005 the group released a divide EP with labelmates Orangenoise Shortcut, accompanied by an record of new materials, Space Wish Bathroom, that was a far more subdued work, paring back again the 8-little bit video game noises and focusing even more on honing the songwriting and creation side from the group’s audio. In addition to the occasional live show, including Taiwan’s Formoz Celebration, the next couple of years had been quiet, however the Aprils reemerged in 2008 in the soundtrack towards the independent cartoon film Kaede New City.