Yo Irie "SF" CD
Yo Irie is a neo-soul pop singer who has established new standards, absorbing Yasuyuki Okamura, Prince, and even Yosui Inoue. Irie's previous album "Work" was highly praised, and his first new album in about a year has been completed! It's a funny, tear-jerking, ever-changing, super-straightforward, slightly mysterious soul flavor madness!
After releasing Soaku Beats, a 7-inch in collaboration with butaji, and an EP, Irie Yo is singing even more. Approaching dance music such as US trap and UK grime, the linguistic sense overflows as he writes about "a distorted form of love". The whole album is filled with a fresh and cutting-edge quality, yet somehow charming and familiar to the masses. The third full album is born, a cheerful and crazy one filled with pop music and black music!
Neo-soul pop singer Irie Yo's second album "Shigoto" produced by Otani Yoshio has been highly praised by many critics and musicians. Starting with the release of D'Angelo and the Vanguard at the end of last year, artists such as cero, Suchmos, and Lucky Tapes have shown an inclination towards black music in Japan, but Irie Yo is an unorthodox and news standard who bridges the gap between popular pop music and black music that has been spun continuously in Japan. For this album, he has co-produced it himself, with several collaborators, including track makers soakubeats, who brought grime to Japan, and Especial, and Awa and sim from the city pop unit Lemon, which has been attracting attention for its releases in analog format, and Teruyuki Oshima, known for Kokai. This album, which is full of variety and humor and has taken a more light-hearted and catchy direction, has a vague 80s feel to it. The engineer is Nakamura Kosuke, who was highly praised for his detailed and heavy mix on Tsuchiyani Bond's latest album, and he continues to work on the previous album. Throughout the album, mellow, pop-like, and beautifully familiar melodies are mixed with surreal and crazy linguistic sense in a wordplay-like manner. The cleverness of the scene descriptions, which include many proper nouns, gives you an addictive feeling that is almost like a pleasure after listening. The third act of the pop theater of the successor to the cheerful and crazy "Japanese Yoga".
■Track list
- 1. Selfishness
- 2. May
- 3. STAR WARS
- 4. What to do
- 5. Moving
- 6. Make Love
- 7. Awakening
- 8. UFO
- 9. Two
- 10. Devil's Gum