Osaka based indie band. Their second album came out today, made me fall completely in love. Website:
http://midori072.com/First album - "ファースト♥" ("First♥") - 2005-11-25
ミドリ - ファースト♥ - 01 - わっしょい。 (3:18)
ミドリ - ファースト♥ - 02 - お猿 (2:05)
ミドリ - ファースト♥ - 03 - ああ嫌 (3:34)
ミドリ - ファースト♥ - 04 - A.N.A (3:03)
ミドリ - ファースト♥ - 05 - ロマンティック夏モード (3:01)
ミドリ - ファースト♥ - 06 - POP (3:08)
01 - Wasshoi
02 - Osaru
03 - Aaiya
04 - A.N.A
05 - Romantic Natsu Mode
06 - POP
Second album - "セカンド♥" (Second♥") - 2007-04-04
ミドリ - セカンド♥ - 01 - ドーピング☆ノイズノイズキッス (3:57)
ミドリ - セカンド♥ - 02 - うわさのあの子 (3:35)
ミドリ - セカンド♥ - 03 - 今日は彼氏がいないから・・・ (3:23)
ミドリ - セカンド♥ - 04 - 声を聞きたいのですが、聞こえないのです (5:25)
ミドリ - セカンド♥ - 05 - あたしのお歌 (2:59)
ミドリ - セカンド♥ - 06 - 獄衣deサンバ (2:46)
ミドリ - セカンド♥ - 07 - 愛のうた (3:13)
ミドリ - セカンド♥ - 08 - あんたは誰や (3:04)
ミドリ - セカンド♥ - 09 - 都会のにおい。 (4:05)
01 - Doping Noise Noise Kiss
02 - Uwasa no Ano Ko
03 - Kyou wa Kareshi ga Inai Kara
04 - Koe o Kikitai no desu ga, Kikoenai desu
05 - Atashi no Outa
06 - Gokui de Samba
07 - Ai no Uta
08 - Anta wa Dare ya
09 - Tokai no Nioi
Torrent for both of them on the trackerFemale vocalist/guitarist: Gotou Mariko
Naked male drummer: Koseni Yoshitaka
Keyboardist: Hajime
Best line I came across by them in an
interview:
Interviewer: I've heard that you originally had more members, but now it's just the three of you?
Gotou: We used to have a lot, but it's more like we went through a lot of different people. There were times we did shows with 5 members.
Interviewer: What sort of music were you making then?
Koseni: Pretty much the same as we're making now, I think.
Hajime: Really, you were?
Kosheni: We didn't have any piano, and for a while we had a guy using a Kaoss Pad and someone just for videos...
Also had a guy that'd whip out his cock and dance around naked for a while.
Sound is a mixture of jazz and hardcore punk mostly, but strays at times into JPop-ish ballads and death metal. They remind me of Shiina Ringo in a way. If you condensed all the music styles she's done into one group, and gave all the members the craziness she used to have, you'd get something like them.
Also, their t-shirts are love.
Front:
Back:
Closeup of the back image:
I'd say they'd fit in here.