Tokyo Scrap And Build

[Machine Translation] YAPOOL has released their long-awaited second album! It s a concept album that s unheard of these days. What do they want to smash to pieces? The album begins with the track Smash It," which declares, Smash the Tokyo Tower, and smash everything." They say there are three things they want to smash right now. The first is old music, and the second is trendy music. The third is YAPOOL as they ve been up until now, and the fourth is this city of Tokyo. Destruction (Destoroy) has long been a symbolic, primal impulse in rock and especially in punk. Several years have passed since they moved to Tokyo and started the band, and the album conveys a message that they want to tear down and rebuild the things that haven t changed at all, the things that have become distorted, and the things that are just boring. While the album includes some mid-tempo tracks amidst the intense numbers, the members say these were just coincidental and weren t intentionally included to create a balance. The album even includes YAPOOL s first-ever love song, giving it a different feel from the straightforward, one-dimensional vibe of their debut album. The album closes with Tokyo Scrap and Build," whose lyrics are sprinkled with titles from YAPOOL s past works, as the band sings about wanting to smash them all to pieces. a track that shatters those very references. It s a concept album that seems impossible in this day and age, yet is the freshest one out there please give it a listen.

YAPOOLが待望の2ndアルバムを発売! これは今どきあり得ないコンセプト・アルバム。彼らは何をぶち壊したいのか? アルバムは「東京タワーを、そして全てをぶち壊せ」と言う「ぶち壊せ」から始まる。今ぶち壊したいものは3つあると言う。1つは古い音楽、そして流行りの音楽。2つ目は今までのYAPOOL自身、そして3つ目はこの東京。破壊 (Destoroy)はロック、とりわけパンクでは昔から象徴的な初期衝動である。東京に出てきてバンドを始めて数年が経ち、一向に変わらないもの、歪な形に変わってしまったもの、つまらないからぶち壊して再構築したいと言うメッセージが込められている。激しいナンバーの中に、ミディアムテンポの楽曲も含まれるが、メンバー曰く、たまたま出来ただけで、特にバランスを考えたものではないと言う。中にはYAPOOL初のラヴ・ソングも含まれていたりもして、1stアルバムでのストレート一辺倒な感じとは趣を異にするラストはYAPOOLの過去作品のタイトルなどが歌詞に散りばめられ、それらをぶち壊したいと歌う「東京スクラップ・アンド・ビルド」で幕を閉じる。今どきあり得なくて、だけど一番新しいコンセプト・アルバム、ぜひお聞きください。