JILUKA is announcing a slew of news today. In an info dump, they announced a new country-wide oneman tour for the year, with 12 dates and a three-date special “circuit” with lives in Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo. These three lives, titled LINKAGE PLOT 2021, will have a live-limited single given out as well as a goods bag as well as a photo event occuring after the live. Given the graphic, I don’t know if that means each date will have a different single as they each state “-ver.-” in front of their name, but that just may be for aesthetic purposes.
The band also teased a new mini-album was coming in September (which may kick off their nationwide tour), and are already announcing Sena’s birthday oneman for August 21st at Shibuya Rex.
I don’t know if the world is still going to be awful in three months, but I REALLY want to go to the AREA oneman (given the live-limited single and AREA’s imminent closing).
I’d also love to go to their oneman at AREA! It’s such an iconic livehouse; definitely going to miss it. Also would love to snag the live-limited single, haha.
Honestly, I’m most interested in the new costumes since there’s not enough information about the mini-album yet to really have much to say musically. Though the only hint being that they’re black doesn’t really give away much about the costumes either(笑)
Here’s to hoping they put it up on their webstore after, since I was dreaming (I know it was super unlikely, but a man can dream) that Japan would open up for tourism before this tour, so I could go and see them at AREA before it’s torn down.
With an album cover like that it definitely better be some of their best stuff, Xtopia felt kind of meh but if Suzaku is a good indicator of what the rest of the album might be like then I’m not worried, really loved that song.
What the heck is a “Divided” album though? I was expecting both versions to have different tracklists but thank hell that’s not the case. But it makes me wonder if it’s like another mini album will shortly follow? Anyway, Jiluka is a mandatory purchase really so will make sure to check this out.
So they explained in an interview that IDOLA is actually a sequel to XTOPIA, where XTOPIA is more melodic (expressing their music through utopia), IDOLA is more aggressive and fast (as in their dystopia).