{"id":44545,"date":"2020-05-30T22:52:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T20:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.nl\/?p=44545"},"modified":"2020-05-31T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T08:00:07","slug":"cd-review-otoboke-beaver-okoshiyasu%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b-otoboke-beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/2020\/05\/cd-review-otoboke-beaver-okoshiyasu%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b-otoboke-beaver\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Review: Otoboke Beaver &#8211; Okoshiyasu\u200b!\u200b! Otoboke Beaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally released way back in 2016 Otoboke Beaver\u2019s <em>Okoshiyasu\u200b!\u200b! Otoboke Beaver<\/em> was an amphetamine charged slab of punk that overheated its own circuits. Self-described \u201cJapanese girls knock out or pound cake band\u201d their international debut found them arriving in a blaze of sonic fury. It\u2019s an album that\u2019s been reissued on vinyl twice (on white and then remastered on pink vinyl for Record Store Day in 2018) and that remastered version finally gets a CD pressing (and collectors note that a yellow vinyl pressing is also just released).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Overall I\u2019m not too enamoured with remasters. Usually, they\u2019re used as weapons of attrition in the loudness war (sit down Rick Rubin!) and, mastered at ear-splitting volume, they leave little room for the music to breathe. Thankfully that\u2019s not the case with <em>Okoshiyasu\u200b!\u200b! Otoboke Beaver<\/em>, while you won\u2019t find the music within acting in new and strange ways, the band&#8217;s intricate web has been untangled to expose subtle nuances buried deep within the mix.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Otoboke Beaver \u304a\u3068\u307c\u3051\u30d3\uff5e\u30d0\uff5e - Anata Ga Falling Love Shita No Ha Watashi Ga Kirai Na [Official MV]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4VVkAxyw6F8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you have a penchant for alternative music and you haven\u2019t been holidaying on Mars then you should be familiar with Otoboke Beaver (\u304a\u3068\u307c\u3051\u30d3\uff5e\u30d0\uff5e). Avant-garde and genre-breaking (like Frank Zappa jamming with Glassjaw) opening salvo <em>Akimahenka<\/em> arrives like a rockfall. Chaotic but controlled it topples over the listener with <em>Anata Ga Fall in Love Shita No Ha Watashi Ga Kirai Na Onnanoko<\/em> snapping hot on its heels.<\/p>\n<p>Dig beneath the sonic fury and you\u2019ll find songs laden with a real groove and this remaster brings the pendulum swing of <em>Sawarantoite<\/em> right to the fore. Likewise, the vocals come centre stage on <em>Otobokebeaver Daijikenbo<\/em> and props to the Beaver for singing in their native Kyoto dialect as it\u2019s a language that fits the music really well.<\/p>\n<p>Barely pausing for breath we get the psychedelic, bad LSD nightmare that is <em>Ultra Miracle Super Saiya Psych Festival<\/em> as the band race along to frantic conclusion in the shape of <em>Suki Suki Darling<\/em>. Highlights in between include the existentialist <em>Beaver Ni Tsurette<\/em> and the volatile <em>Aisare Roulette<\/em> but wherever you look on <em>Okoshiyasu\u200b!\u200b! Otoboke Beaver,\u00a0 <\/em>you\u2019re confronted with killer tracks.<\/p>\n<p>If, through some strange set of circumstances, you don\u2019t own a copy of <em>Okoshiyasu\u200b!\u200b! Otoboke Beaver<\/em> then this is the edition to <a href=\"https:\/\/otobokebeaver.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">buy<\/a>. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tracklist Okoshiyasu\u200b!\u200b! Otoboke Beaver:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Akimahenka<br \/>\n2. Anata Ga Fall in Love Shita No Ha Watashi Ga Kirai Na Onnanoko<br \/>\n3. Sawarantoite<br \/>\n4. Otobokebeaver Daijikenbo<br \/>\n5. Ultra Miracle Super Saiya Psyche Festival<br \/>\n6. Powerfull Busu<br \/>\n7. Beaver Ni Tsuretette<br \/>\n8. Oniisan Anone<br \/>\n9. Otobokebeaver No Theme<br \/>\n10. Aisare Roulette<br \/>\n11. Burikko Bokumetsu<br \/>\n12. Monmon Katto Saizensen ~Koi Ha Inochigake~<br \/>\n13. Suki Suki Darling<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally released way back in 2016 Otoboke Beaver\u2019s Okoshiyasu\u200b!\u200b! Otoboke Beaver was an amphetamine charged slab of punk that overheated its own circuits. Self-described \u201cJapanese girls knock out or pound cake band\u201d their international debut found them arriving in a blaze of sonic fury. It\u2019s an album that\u2019s been reissued on vinyl twice (on white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":44591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"3073"},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3073,2976],"tags":[5992],"class_list":["post-44545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-reviews","category-all-reviews","tag-otoboke-beaver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44545"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44626,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44545\/revisions\/44626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}