Doka Sukoyakani!

From Mishima, Shizuoka, this is the identity of four members, unfolded beneath a sound filed under shoegaze and dream pop. Formed within a university club in Mishima, Shizuoka in the spring of 2019, they release their long-awaited 1st EP in the summer of 2026, in their seventh year since forming. Seven years that can hardly be called those of a newcomer. Graduating from university, the COVID-19 pandemic, finding work, moving to Tokyo. Those experiences refined what they had created on their initial impulse and gave it pride. "1970-nen no Vacances" is beautiful for the dynamics that rise out of a taut tension and for lyrics held in exquisite balance. "Ashikubi" carefully expresses a melancholy that drifts at a consistently low temperature from beginning to end. "Donuts," the latest song, born out of experience, has a vigorous rhythm, a nostalgic melody and striking lyrics. Even now, with shoegaze in the middle of a major movement driven by young people, the expression of these four awkward members was delivered only at live venues for seven years. From the start they have valued a pop mind wearing the skin of shoegaze, and a world made by the four of them alone. The smiles the rhythm section shows during live performances may at first seem mismatched with their sound, but perhaps that is an expression of the fact that they are not a stereotypical shoegaze band. Recorded at ROJI as a self-production, and with the music video for "Donuts" filmed and edited by the members themselves, this became a direct work with no outside intervention in the expression the four of them create. Mixing is handled by Akihiro Iizuka, who works with Yanushi, and mastering by Moe Kazama.

静岡県三島市発、シューゲイザーやドリームポップと括られるサウンドの下で繰り広げる、4人のアイデンティティ。 2019年春、静岡県三島市で大学サークル内にて結成。結成7年目にして待望の1st EPを2026年夏リリース。決してニューカマーとは言えない7年。大学卒業からコロナ禍・就職・上京。その経験は彼女達が初期衝動で産み出したものを洗練し、プライドを持たせた。張り詰めた緊張感からの抑揚と、絶妙なバランスで成り立つ歌詞が美しい「1970年のバカンス」終始低い温度感で漂う哀愁を丁寧に表現する「足首」躍動感溢れるリズム、郷愁なメロディと印象的な歌詞。経験から生まれた最新曲「ドーナツ」今でこそシューゲイザーは若者たちによる大きなムーブメントがある最中、不器用な四人の表現は7年間ライブ会場のみで届けられた。そもそも彼女たちはシューゲイザーの皮をかぶったポップマインドと、四人だけで作る世界を大事にしている。ライブ中にリズム隊が浮かべる笑顔は一見彼女たちのサウンドとアンマッチだが、それは彼女たちがステレオタイプなシューゲイザーバンドではないという表現なのかもしれない。セルフ・プロダクションによるROJIでのレコーディング、メンバーのみで撮影・編集された「ドーナツ」のMusic Videoは四人が産み出す表現に他者の介入がない、ダイレクトな作品となった。ミックスは家主を手がける飯塚晃弘氏、マスタリングは風間萌氏が手がける。