 | Midori Aratame Hajime Mashite Midori Desu
4.1
excellent
| Ranking: #40 for 2008 | |
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| 0.0 | BMDrummer | August 4th 14 |
Fuck, the Japanese are weird. I won't go into what's coming out of the conutry right now in their various music scenes, but this blend of jazz and punk that Midori are doing is quite interesting. It almost reminds me of James Chance and the Contortions a little bit, which is always fantastic, but the more traditional jazz sound is much more reserved compared to the Contortions' free jazz freakouts. Either way though, this is a manic as all fuck record that combines jazz, noise, and punk all at the same time, with certain songs focusing on each side a bit differently.
Also, sexy cover
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| 0.0 | Xenophanes EMERITUS | December 4th 11 |
This is pretty much the most wild, balls to the wall thing I've heard in a long time, and it's fucking awesome. Jazzy, punky, noisy rock. Too bad the band has since disbanded since, because more of this would definitely please.
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| 5.0 classic | LethalPaintball | May 21st 18 |
jesus fucking christ this rules so god damn hard and there's tiddies on the cover for bonus points
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| 4.0 excellent | EdgyMessiah | December 31st 12 |
The appeal of Midori comes from their charismatic and weird fusion of noise rock and jazz elements, as well as the demented vocal style of their female lead vocalist. Midori Desu is arguably the best display of the group's originality and high energy.
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| 3.5 great | zaruyache | June 25th 25 |
post-hardcore jazz/art rock album from weird Japanese band yepp
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| 4.0 excellent | BlitzPhoenix98 | November 17th 20 |
When she said desutoroi... I felt that...
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| 4.5 superb | capes | September 25th 19 |
It's an explosion of pianos, double bass, and shouting. Yet, all this noise blends together shockingly well... On top of that, they managed to pull together a variety of styles for their songs. Some are thrashy, some are bouncy, and somehow, most of them are really good! If you were ever looking for 'something else', it doesn't get much more 'something else' than this.
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| 5.0 classic | Jared Floryan | March 7th 18 |
Head patters to the right, robot neckbeards on my left, and smack dab in the middle lies Aratamemashite, Hajimemashite, Midori Desu.; the title essentially translates to 'Hello Everyone, Nice to Meet You, We're Midori.' The 2008 release by Osaka-based punk jazz group Midori is a giant trip and a half. When it's not sickeningly sweet and precise, this studio album ends up sounding either idiosyncratic, harsh, or a fusion of the two traits... and by George, the material's all the richer for that! Even upon taking the offering's fairly short length into account, there's still plenty to unpack here be it the dizzying techniques employed by the rhythm section and Mariko Goto's perfectly flawed vocal chops among other things. After a while, these end up being my personal favorite breed of albums to jam: the ones that don't appear to be much on the surface, but more is revealed to you or uncovered yourself in a pleasantly surprising way the farther along you get. Multifaceted as all hell.
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| 4.5 superb | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | September 24th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Corney | May 22nd 25 |
| 2.0 poor | foxxxy | March 11th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Risodo | January 8th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | platttt | December 22nd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Innellim | September 13th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Zac124 | June 28th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Respawn | April 9th 23 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Chrysoar | February 28th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | gschwen | November 22nd 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Gegery | September 10th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Diogie | June 27th 22 |
| 3.5 great | n3zar | February 3rd 22 |
| 2.5 average | Votex | January 4th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Tim64T | December 23rd 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Pppete | November 2nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Harff7 | September 16th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Roidv | July 15th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Prancer | March 21st 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Lucman | January 28th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Scryxer | December 11th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | shira | July 14th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | AddiQui | February 7th 20 |
| 3.5 great | doofy | September 11th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Emo | August 15th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Krelkin | June 22nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Blurbs | April 19th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | clavier EMERITUS | January 17th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Pikmar | December 11th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | bentl | December 9th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | corny? | July 6th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | DragonM | March 27th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | YAAAOOO | January 10th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | aqui | July 15th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | YeeHaw | July 14th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | tyler | February 18th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | p4p | November 16th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Tom R. EMERITUS | November 2nd 16 |
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| 4.0 excellent | md5 | August 23rd 16 |
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| 4.5 superb | teeawgo | February 25th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Trebor. EMERITUS | February 25th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Escain | February 4th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Asunder | January 24th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | ziroth | December 2nd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | bmelt | September 19th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nacen | June 27th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | valeri | June 19th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | BrianE | October 2nd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | CWBrown | September 25th 14 |
| 3.5 great | ethos | May 1st 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Circle | April 21st 14 |
| 3.5 great | Wiosna | March 29th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | drewbox | January 24th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Gtzk | January 5th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Mootgut | December 12th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Geehhh | September 12th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | mistercb | September 8th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pox | June 15th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | devon69 | March 22nd 13 |
| 5.0 classic | ADM20 | February 4th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | ILJ | February 4th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | DadKungFu EMERITUS | December 16th 12 |
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| 3.5 great | Acorn | April 30th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | BlueW | March 16th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wael | December 19th 11 |
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