Chai – Punk LP Vinyl Record (White Vinyl)

Chai – Punk LP Vinyl Record (White Vinyl)

The Japanese quartet Chain devote their sophomore album “Punk” to enthusiastic, maximalist pop with a bluntly feminist message. The Nagoya-based band’s record is terrifically over the top. The current landscape of indie rock produces songs with heavy notes of loss and longing. But Chai is a band who screams yes to joy, and “Punk” is a record written in earnest about being yourself, loving your friends, and not caring about what anyone else thinks about the way you live your life.

CHAI, four Japanese women who just can’t take all the damn cuteness anymore, make music to challenge the stereotype “Kawaii.” Three of them, twins Mana (keys and lead vocals) and Kana (guitar), responsible for melodies and chords, and Yuna (drums), met while in a music program at high school. Later on, at college in their hometown of Nagoya, they met Yuki, who taught herself bass and was holding down the bottom-end of the band within twelve months. They released their debut last year; the hyperactive, super-animated, brilliantly genre-melding “Chai.” It served as a Technicolor vehicle for CHAI’s message: take your kawaii, and shove it. We’re gonna do things our way.

Pressed on WhiteVinyl

TRACKLISTING

Side A:

1. Choose Go!
2. Great Job
   
3. I’m Me
   
4. Wintime
   
5. This Is Chai
   

Side B:

1. Fashionista
2. Family Member
   
3. Curly Adventure
   
4. Feel The Beat
   
5. Future