My Little Lover

Japanese pop group My Small Lover shaped in 1995 across the core membership of vocalist Akko (Akamatsu Akiko) and guitarist Fujii Kenji, with producer and keyboard player Kobayashi Takeshi joining immediately after (and marrying Akko the next year). Quickly increasing to nationwide prominence, the group’s audio had become emblematic from the past due-’90s J-pop audio shared with identical artists such as for example ALL THINGS and the Excellent Green. My Small Lover’s debut recording, Evergreen, premiered in 2005, plus they quickly founded themselves as a high Ten work in Japan’s Oricon graphs, with a audio comparable to, however softer-edged than, their even more punk-influenced contemporaries Judy & Mary. Their 2006 one “Yes ~Totally free Rose~” reached number 1 and a reliable flow of strike singles on the following year raised goals for their somewhat even more upbeat and poppy-sounding sophomore record, Presents, which just six months afterwards was accompanied by the greater mature-sounding New Experience. In 2001 My Small Fan released Topics, which noticed the band moving toward a far more ballad-oriented audio. The graph positions of following singles begun to drop off for this period. An record of brand-new acoustic variations of old music, Organic premiered in 2002, per year that also noticed the departure of Fujii. The next year, My Small Lover embarked on the initial tour before coming back with a fresh record, Fantasy, along with a best-of compilation in 2004. This might mark the finish of My Small Lover within their preliminary form, using the group parting firm with Toy’s Stock and Kobayashi departing the band to spotlight his are a manufacturer. Akko continued being a single artist beneath the My Small Fan moniker, re-emerging in 2006 on Avex Trax using the record Akko, accompanied by 2008’s Identification. Neither record, however, could reclaim the band’s past due-’90s achievement, with graph positions seldom scraping the very best 40.