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Bump of Chicken may want to avoid full commitment into dance tracks a la “Butterfly” and go for something like “Fighter”, the best track of the album that sounds (kind of) relevant to the current upbeat trend while retaining the emotional strength the band is best at. Bump of Chicken excels in delivering emotional tracks via Fujiwara’s vocal and beautiful lyrics, and this doesn’t translate well into EDM. Some reordering of the tracks may be able to make “Butterflies” a much better album.īut the main problem with Bump of Chicken’s venture into dance numbers may be the different way emotion is conveyed in the genre. BUMP OF CHICKEN's 'Butterflies' was the best selling album of February, so I was given the task of reviewing the album for The Japan Times. Songs like “Houseki ni Natta Hi”, or the folksy “Kodoku no Gasshou” were decent songs but the momentum they build were not met well by the subsequent tracks in the album. “Butterflies” alternates almost constantly between fast, upbeat songs and solemn, contemplative ones. It’s a shame that the inclusion of said songs weren’t handled well enough, disrupting the overall flow of the album. It’s almost eerie how the song reminds me so much with Coldplay’s “X Marks The Spot”, the hidden track of “A Head Full of Dreams” (on the topic of hidden tracks, there’s also one in “Butterflies”. That sound was successfully explored further in “You were here”, a haunting track where the band stripped all excessive instruments, leaving a single guitar strum and a thumping heartbeat. While the band mainly stuck to their upbeat guns, they began blending EDM into their alt-rock on 2016's Butterflies three of the album’s tracks eventually embellished popular anime series. Most of the album’s better tracks are Bump of Chicken’s trademark slow rock ballads such as “Colony” and “Ryuusei Gun”. Bump of Chicken could do no wrong the following decade, and 2010's Cosmonaut became the first of four chart-topping albums in a row. doesn’t fully abandon their slow roots in “Butterflies”, though. Both are brave efforts that are quite easy on the ears, but ultimately fail to make a lasting impression. It debuted atop the Oricon Albums Chart, selling 197,160 copies in its first week. “Butterflies” were decorated with all sorts of electronic sounds that are most apparent in the dancey “Butterfly” or the autotune-fueled “Colony”. Butterflies is the eighth studio album by Japanese band Bump of Chicken, released through Toys Factory on February 10, 2016. Bump of Chicken’s effort to tap into the genre starts subtly with 2014’s “RAY”, but they never went all out until this 8th album. In the realms of mainstream bands, Sekai no Owari’s 2014 hit “Dragon Night” may be the prime example of the phenomena. In recent years, EDM sounds were quite prominent in the mainstream Japanese music scene (as usual, Japan is a bit lagging in terms of music trends).
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