{"id":26674,"date":"2017-04-06T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=26674"},"modified":"2017-04-06T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:43:28","slug":"otoboke-beaver-release-love-is-short-ep-in-time-for-record-store-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/04\/otoboke-beaver-release-love-is-short-ep-in-time-for-record-store-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Otoboke Beaver Release ‘Love Is Short!!’ EP In Time For Record Store Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kyoto\u2019s punk-rock-garage quartet Otoboke Beaver have released their EP ‘Love Is Short’\u00a0via Damnably Records, in time for Record Store Day, April 22. ‘Love Is Short!!’ is their second EP and third release outside of Japan.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Otoboke Beaver made their US performance debut at SXSW to critical praise. NPR All Songs Considered listed them in their \u201cWhat We Loved At SXSW\u201d coverage:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTheir hardcore punk sound was tempered by their presence onstage, which was at turns coy, flirtatious and completely badass\u2026their energy was so infectious, it crossed all language barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Otoboke Beaver will have a headline tour of the UK following in May.<\/p>\n

Otoboke Beaver describe themselves as: \u201cJapanese girls ‘knock out or pound cake’ band\u201d. Formed in the summer of 2009 in Kyoto, Japan, and consists of Accorinrin (lead Vocal & Guitar), Yoyoyoshie (Guitar &Vocals), Hiro-chan (Bass &Vocals), Pop (Drums &Vocals). Live, the band invade the audience and have shared stages with Shonen Knife, Guitar Wolf, BO NINGEN and more. ‘Love is Short!!’ is the second EP and third release (outside Japan) from Otoboke Beaver.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s name is taken from a local \u2018Love Hotel\u2019 and the song subject matter is a screw you to bad love, devious boyfriends and general sexism. Their early releases carried artwork with scary visual beaver puns and Otoboke Beaver are part of a new wave of feminist Japanese bands, defining themselves sexually and musically. The pressure of the conformist and patriarchal society is palpable in their music.<\/p>\n

‘Love Is Short’ sees the band blood-letting a generation\u2019s gender frustration. ‘Introduce me to your family’ has more vocal playfulness, funky bass and buzzsaw guitar that eventually tumbles into a volcano of noise, with beats tripping over themselves and looks at relationships as a kind of personal war. ‘Ikezu’ (Mean) at 19 seconds is a stamping flash of anger. There’s something about the Kansai triangle (Osaka\/Kobe\/Kyoto – it’s Japan’s equivalent to England’s Midlands, or America\u2019s midwest) that’s produced some great and very varied music with a great sense of unity, though each city is radically different. Otoboke Beaver have emerged from one of those many provincial scenes, influenced by western Riot Grrrl attitudes and the sounds of punk and angular post-rock, make easy work of the complex arrangements, reminiscent of inventive jazzy queercore punks God Is My Co-Pilot, or more recently Afrirampo. The band sing in Japanese, and often in difficult to translate Kyoto slang.<\/p>\n

Golden Week UK Tour 2017 with Say Sue Me (South Korea)<\/strong>
\nMay 1\u00a0– \u00a0London -\u00ad\u2010 100 Club
\nMay 2\u00a0– \u00a0Bristol -\u00ad\u2010 Exchange
\nMay 3\u00a0– Glasgow -\u00ad\u2010 CCA
\nMay 4\u00a0– Leicester-\u00ad\u2010 Musician<\/p>\n

Find out more about Otoboke Beaver online on their official website<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>. See here for more information about their Record Store Day release of ‘Love Is Short!!’<\/a><\/p>\n

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