![]() Onuki was a student in high school when she joined a band that scored a record deal and management contract with Sony Music's Japanese branch however, the group splintered while the label took its time deciding what to do with them, and Onuki ended up making her recording debut as a solo artist. The duo has also enjoyed considerable critical success for their infectious and energetic pop music, in which vocalists Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura have succeeded in letting their eclectic musical personalities shine through in a genre where cookie-cutter production is often the order of the day, recording tunes that run the gamut from polished electronic bubblegum to British Invasion-influenced pop to hooky, guitar-based pop-punk. Both solid albums as well.Puffy AmiYumi are a Japanese pop group who have achieved the status of a minor industry in their homeland, where their records have sold over fourteen million units, they've successfully marketed a dizzying variety of merchandise (from the traditional T-shirts and souvenir books to dolls, bow ties, and underwear) and starred in not one but two successful television shows. Also ordered Minmin's Air Girl and her old band Chocolate Chip Cookies' Your World. ![]() Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her's new album (after only a 15 year gap.) Eternal Adolescence is really good. I ordered a few other discs from cdjapan, which I wound up being very happy with. Regardless of the unevenness of this new Puffy single they are still active and that makes me happy. Where are the winds are blowing for Puffy's 20th year? I do not know and the frustration and dejection you are reading comes as much from that which is a product of uneven material for the better part of five years. COCO Hawaii was a good one off but I am not sure I would want an entire album like that either. Colorful Wave Surfers is a decent song and if that is the direction Puffy is going then that is probably going to be an album that is good but not 20 year anniversary good. Puffypipoyama is not a good song and represents the unevenness of Puffy's singles since their last full album Thank You. Though I would say COCO Hawaii is the one that suffers without Ami and Yumi's vocals but it is neat to hear how the song shifts tempo instrumentally.Īfter multiple listenings of the Puffypipoyama single I come away with some mixed feelings. The instrumental tracks are basically filler. Ami and Yumi both deliver good vocals and the COCO Hawaii picks up a lot of good energy as they progress through it. ![]() The start is kind of slow and I did not know what to think but then pretty much every element of a great Puffy song is there. I think one of Puffy's strengths has been marrying multiple styles in one song and Colorful Wave Surfers is kind of one note but a well executed one.ĬOCO Hawaii is the final track and Puffy nails it. To me it is a song that sort of looses my interest as it goes along, but it is still a good track. ![]() I reviewed this previously so I will not dwell on the track beyond where my opinions are after some time and distance. I will give some good marks to the traditional Japanese synthesizer elements, I did like that.Ĭolorful Wave Surfers is the second track and we drift back into more familiar Puffy territory. As a reader pointed out it feels like them cashing in on the weird Japan meme. Like some of the more recent Puffy releases there are elements of Puffy's stylings but it is a frenetic mess that never comes together. I really do not mean that in a flattering manner. It sounds like a more synth heavy Datsu Dystopia but as if it was intended for a Dance Dance Revolution game. Puffypipoyama is the lead off track and I re-approached it with an open mind. Colorful Wave Surfers was a previous digital release and COCO Hawaii was a song for the show In Love With Hawaii. Of the three principle tracks only the title track Puffypipoyama is a new song. The disc contains six tracks, three songs plus the instrumental versions of them. So slot this single somewhere in the Nice Buddy range of single presentations, but as the old cliche goes: don't judge a book by its cover.
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