Mama's Gun "Golden Days" CD

* Commentary: Kazumasa Miyako

Mama's Gun, a new generation new soul band that has been compared to everyone from Stevie Wonder to Marvin Gaye and the Average White Band, has completed an album of superb pop songs that is even larger in scale than ever!

Mama's Gun continues to attract pop fans with their natural sense of melody, not to mention soul and funk fans. The lead song "House On A Hill" from their hugely successful debut album "Routes To Riches" was played on 33 radio stations nationwide, creating a huge sensation in Japan. This long-awaited 4th album is a colorful funky pop album that easily surpasses their previous album "Cheap Hotel," which was highly praised as a work that paves the way for the future of funk and soul!

Their outstanding musical sense, which freely moves from 90s acid jazz to 70s Motown sound, blue-eyed soul to AOR, is still alive and well in this album! Mama's Gun is a five-member band led by Andy Pratt, who is also active as a songwriter, providing songs for Corinne Bailey Rae and Japan's Every LittleThing. The endearing melodies, catchy pop, funky groove, and danceable uplifting feel shine even more in this album, which is a soulful work! This album, which took three years to complete, is a masterpiece that is sure to captivate music lovers around the world with its more positive and refreshing feel than ever before!

■Track list