If It's Too Loud...

Japanese punk quartet Otoboke Beaver have released a new single off their upcoming album. "YAKITORI" starts off as a fun little upbeat song. It's cheery and fairly fun, and then the song just launches off into an absolute fury. It's filled with screaming and plenty of abrasive sounds while never quite losing that original upbeat cheer. Plus, they even throw in some metal guitar licks. Otoboke Beaver throw themselves to complete extremes in this one, and somehow cram this all into an under two minute run time. This kind of mocking punk is my favorite kind of punk out there, and "YAKITORI" do it to perfection. Vocalist/guitarist Accorinrin says of the new song: “We are not popular in Japan, but we have been told by some Japanese people that we are flirting with foreigners. I was so pissed off by this that I decided to write songs with ‘Japanese’ and ‘foreign flirtatious’ titles, such as ‘SUSHI’ and ‘YAKITORI.’ It’s a meaningless song, ‘I’m the one who threw ya...

Photo by Mayumi Hirata The latest song from Japanese punks Otoboke Beaver starts off the way you would expect. Sure, it's punk, but the song tends to have a sweeter, bouncy side. But as "PARDON?" goes on, it gets angrier and more chaotic. Eventually it descends into almost pure anger and chaos. The song starts off as more fun and bratty punk and slowly transforms into noise punk (while still keeping the majority of the fun from the start of the song intact), all within less than two minutes. Since the song is about "... unrelenting miscommunication of unsolicited and overzealous points of view," the frustration in the song makes perfect sense. Otoboke Beaver say of their new song: “Sometimes, the more you insist, the harder it is to understand you. We don’t have time to understand if you don’t have time to understand." You can watch the video for "PARDON?" below. Super Champion is due out May 6 on Damnably. For more on Otoboke Beaver, check out th...