I feel like there's a little more distinction between the guitar tones on these tracks so far from song to song. Hoping that's more an indication of better production on the album and not just varying radio rip quality haha.

This track is fantastic. Really loved Debris, too. Overall, personally, this is shaping up to be a really, really enjoyable album. Guitar work is on point, vocals are...delicious. ;D

getting really close to the album release. everyone freaking out yet???

*listens to debris*......CANNOT WAIT.

Listened to the previews. Wish I were excited, but I'm not at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjGqzZ2LlMo
Jesus christ, that bike...

It has room for both Ueda AND Kashima!

That S&R bicycle has got to be the most difficult in terms of transportation. Hands down.

It's good for use in long arguments, I bet!

Release date is less than a week away. I don't have another cool song to share, so I thought I'd share a tidbit that I read in an interview with Sawao.

We know that Sawao is quite a film buff and is often inspired by movies when he writes lyrics or song titles. This is why we have songs such as "One Flew Under the Cuckoo's Nest", and whatnot. Stroll and Roll includes a song titled "Tragedy of Elliott", but who is Elliot?

Sawao wanted to have a song title that sounded like a movie title, so he wanted to call the song "Tragedy of..." ...something. He had been listening to [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Smith]Elliot Smith[/url] at the time, and decided to use "Tragedy of Elliot". Elliot Smith is believed to have committed suicide 2003.

Sawao said that the song lyrics are unrelated to the title, though.

Will be interesting to see what the lyrics for that song are, I wonder if it's going to be a story type song like when he would write about various films or something.

I'm pumped to listen to the whole thing through. Big step up from the last album already IMHO.

Production-wise, there is no question there. Songwriting-wise, we'll have to wait and see, I guess.

(But I, too, think this is going to rock Moondust and even Trial out of the water. )

[quote="Marekenshin"](But I, too, think this is going to rock Moondust and even Trial out of the water. )[/quote]
Even [i]Trial[/i]? That's one hefty bet; it's essential equivalent to "best Pillows album since [i]Smile[/i]".

Trial on trial: breaking story hits next week!

How Sawao Got His Groove Back? I mean, seems like the split with Avex was a good thing.