{"id":26969,"date":"2017-04-25T11:34:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T10:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=26969"},"modified":"2017-04-24T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T10:39:04","slug":"otoboke-beaver-premiere-video-for-love-is-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/04\/otoboke-beaver-premiere-video-for-love-is-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Otoboke Beaver Premiere Video For &#8216;Love Is Short&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26675\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/04\/otoboke-beaver-release-love-is-short-ep-in-time-for-record-store-day\/otokobe-beaver\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Otokobe-Beaver.jpg?fit=1987%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1987,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Otokobe Beaver\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Otokobe-Beaver.jpg?fit=640%2C660&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26675\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Otokobe-Beaver.jpg?resize=640%2C660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"660\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The new video for Otoboke Beaver&#8217; s track, &#8216;Love Is Short&#8217;, premiered on Friday April 21 in NPR\/Natalie (Japan), ahead of Record Store Day.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>&#8220;The Kyoto-based Otoboke Beaver takes in the history of Japanese punk and runs with scissors in hand towards the bonkers-noise of early Boredoms, Afrirampo&#8217;s uninhibited avant-punk, and the revved-up garage-rock of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2016\/12\/09\/504824419\/shonen-knife-on-world-cafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2016\/12\/09\/504824419\/shonen-knife-on-world-cafe&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1493045997538000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHgqs36K27T5uUlK0_GNTiIROPKEg\">Shonen Knife<\/a> (and maybe a little bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15510102\/john-zorn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15510102\/john-zorn&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1493045997538000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG396hbAjbG25rT9bOK9obQMFrNsQ\">John Zorn<\/a>&#8216;s blistering Naked City, just to put it over the top). Punk is rarely this charmingly vicious.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>&#8220;Filmed around Kyoto temples and shrines and by the Katsura River, Keita Yamamoto directs this video for &#8220;Love Is Short.&#8221; In it, the band takes vengeance on an eye-patched boss and his henchman in style. Turns out that the no-good men baddies also serve as goofy stand-ins for the song&#8217;s theme.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<b><\/b><\/i>Lars Gotrich <b>NPR Music editor<\/b><i><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_59011\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MwWIruhPkxM?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Otoboke Beaver \u304a\u3068\u307c\u3051\u30d3\uff5e\u30d0\uff5e - Love Is Short \u30e9\u30d6\u30fb\u30a4\u30ba\u30fb\u30b7\u30e7\u30fc\u30c8 [Official Music Video]\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/MwWIruhPkxM\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new video for Otoboke Beaver&#8217; s track, &#8216;Love Is Short&#8217;, premiered on Friday April 21 in NPR\/Natalie (Japan), ahead of Record Store Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,640],"tags":[1905,184,9621,9622,77,1945,9763,9619,764,9322],"class_list":["post-26969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-videos","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-kyoto","tag-love-is-short","tag-new-release","tag-new-video","tag-nprnatalie","tag-otoboke-beaver","tag-punk","tag-record-store-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-70Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26674,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/04\/otoboke-beaver-release-love-is-short-ep-in-time-for-record-store-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":26969,"position":0},"title":"Otoboke Beaver Release &#8216;Love Is Short!!&#8217; EP In Time For Record Store Day","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"06\/04\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Kyoto\u2019s punk-rock-garage quartet Otoboke Beaver have released their EP 'Love Is Short' via Damnably Records, in time for Record Store Day, April 22. 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