Akai Yūrei succesfully evolved into their new version, Oideyo! Yūreiz, and will release their first mini album tomorrow (June 1st, midnight local time)
Individual pics
STRAWBERRY ON THE SHORTCAKE
An instrumental version of the album is also available
STRAWBERRY ON THE SHORTCAKE (Intrumental)
Love the " reincarnation " thingy lol Is it basically their new band name or is some sort of new concept ?
The new look is soooo pretty and the new MV too ! nice vocals ( and instrus )
It’s their new band name yes! No idea if they’ll change it again, hopefully not!
And thank you so much, I missed the MV! Here it is:
I wonder how much is actual VFX and how much is IA… It looks very clean, but who knows these days.
I hope this one and Happy Ending will be included in a full album or something down the line.
I kept wondering the same thing during the whole MV !! Everytime a VK band use aquarium/fish concept they automatically get in my feelings lol but i wonder with how new and notoveryfamous they are, if they have the budget for vfx or if it’s just ( cheap, but well mastered in this case ) AI … turned out actually very pretty anyway at least
They sound great, I see a concept that really catches my eye and is very distinct. We’ll listen tomorrow!
Well, that was interesting. Songwritting reminds me of late aicle somehow. I like how is produced too, sounds great. I don’t think I’ll listen to this song a lot but I’ll keep my eye on them.
The PV is so interesting too. I’m comvinced It’s AI but It used very deliberate and was integrated into the production design early since they ain’t using It for random crap to take over the screen but seem like they instead filmed each sectiom with different lightning so everything blend im better and they added the ai effects later ( and not everything is AI, some regular digital effects have been used or the AI results have been heavily edited)
Also just saw this was yumeleep vo.! Okay that explains why It cought my attention
I think their Twitter bio said something about “Special something something project”. That’s why I was surprised they applied for b7klan festival as a temporary project.
Listening to the mini right now, and wow, I’m shocked. It’s good, I like it. There’s a clear soundscape. The songwritting isn’t amazing but they’re going for something I’ve not seen other bands do much.
I also listened to some of this songs before, like Odabutu but they stayed on the back of my mind not knowing when or by who.
Is this really a temporary project? I can see them being able to develop in interesting way with some time.
Maybe the reincarnation thing is a new start as more serious thing? They’re putting some effort and money into what they’re putting out in general (maybe I’m coping though)
actually after posting my comment i rewatched the MV and laughed at that scene in particular. Dude looked like Penny Wise it was ridiculous :l ( which pretty much was an inspiration for the IA when you think about it )
but for the other parts with the fishes it looked at least somehow cute/pretty so there is at leaaast that when you compare it to other bands using atrocious gross AI )
the singer is yumeleep’s ex bassist.
Hopefully reincarnating with a new name isn’t part of their concept, that’s discoverability death… This song is really charming. What I like about this band is that their sound isn’t exactly ground breaking but it’s so pleasant and refreshing somehow.
If the MV really is AI, I have to admit that it’s the least offensive use of AI seen in visual kei. It hurts to say, but it’s such a cute MV.
So did they upload the instrumental version of the new song Eureka to both versions of the mini on accident??
Cause the song kinda sounds like it’s missing vocals to me and not in an on purpose instrumental song kinda way… should’ve put the song from the video and/or Happy End!
Oh I thought he really just stopped wispering lol
I don’t think so since the instrumental versions have the -instrumental - added. Eureka doesn’t have it in either version so I would assume it’s instumental by nature.
I know that’s almost certainly right but I got confused thinking I clicked the instrumental mini at first!
You are right.
On their Youtube channel, you can watch almost every single performance of them (the live streams with Kirby), ユリイカ was often used as an opening instrumental song.
