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Impressive / suggestive pop arts seasoned with bombastic weirdness. It's mentioned that a Japanese (almost Tokyo- based) underground avantgarde pop quartet HARPY, active just upon the boundary between 20th and 21st centuries, impressed the audience with mysterious rhythmic basis and mystic, eccentric melody lines. Their sound components would be created by the two front members - the drummer / multi-instrumentalist ITOKEN and the vocalist KYOKO - and such a surrealism around their soundscape could be developed extremely because they were under the same roof, I guess. KYOKO had played in OOIOO for a short while and you can find the reason why she left the female combo via differences of sound texture.

Every single track in this album (also in other opuses) is quite short (no longer than 4 minutes) and they stuffed much essence into a 1 or 2 minute song. As you understand through the creation, KYOKO's high-tone, immature, and especially addictive voices are tempting and outstanding everywhere. Their melody lines are not complicated nor elaborated but simple and repetitive ... forgive me but I think they produced every single stuff improvisationally and momentarily. But let me say this improvisational creativity and intensive natural beauty via their inner mind should have formed another dimension of musical dynamics (with lots of instruments utilized). You can feel full of pleasure and vivacity in this album compiled with plenty of their impulses and native ideas beneath the inner world. This creation is "not my glass of wine" indeed but should get appreciated enough more.