BUCK-TICK: RAZZLE DAZZLE

WELCOME yume no sekai e nazomeku FANTASY

Azayaka sa kugizuke sa magician Django

(BUCK-TICK. "Django!!! –Genwaku no Django—." Razzle Dazzle. Ariola Japan, 2010)

So, after staying up way late last Friday night/Saturday morning and sleeping until early afternoon, I found that I had received the new BUCK-TICK CD in the mail. Had forgotten I had ordered it, but then I did pre-order it back in July. At the time, CD Japan just had it down as UNTITLED. I didn't think much of it, as that could have been the name... Also, I believe the release date was not fixed and simply said "November".

When I first listened to the album, I was surprised that it didn't sound like their previous two albums. I should be used that with these guys; those albums didn't rely sound like previous albums either. My roommate, on the other hand, didn't know it was new album, as it still sound like them.

I've been listening this album constantly all week, and is does remind me of their older work (like Sexy Stream Liner, Kyokutou I Love You and Mona Lisa Overdrive), but has a constant energy flowing through it that really doesn't let up.  My immediate favorite on the album is Django!!! -Genwaku no Django-, followed by the rest of the album.

A good review can be found at Dadapops, and all kinds of translations (including lyrics) and news can be found at the BLOG-TICK PHENOMENON (A blog that, if I had been paying attention to, I would have known a new album would out sooner than I thought...)

(The most interesting part of the week was when I ran into a friend and co-worker, a field tech who doesn't come into the main office much, who was in town for a week before returning to his territory.  He had told me that he had met, and was now playing with, a jazz musician and that they were working on a new song highly inspired by the works of Django Reinhardt.)