Tokyo's Coolest Sound

The first release of 2020 (or Reiwa year 2 in the Japanese calendar) is a new album by trauma techno-pop band Urbangarde titled "TOKYOPOP". The album contains 6 new songs (including "kotoba uri" and "Tokyo wa Reiwa reiji"), newly recorded self-covers (such as early songs "shūsei shugisha" and "Skirt kakumei") and remixes by Seiho and Yunomi.

A deluxe edition including a poster and hardcover artbook "Tokyo bakuhatsu" ("Tokyo Explosion", 100 pages, A4 size) is also being sold only via their official online shop. The artbook contains photography by Ivana Micic depicting the band in a theme of "Wild Tokyo", and is designed by Urbangarde leader Matsunaga Temma.

Check out the special release page.

There will be an in-store event at Tower Records Shinjuku on Friday January 17 from 19:00 (details) (with others to follow in Nagoya, Osaka, Sendai and Sapporo). Also Urbangarde will hold their most extensive tour of Japan ever, starting January 31 at Ebisu CreAto in Tokyo (already sold out), and then ending on May 5 in Tokyo again at Akabane ReNY alpha. Find tour details here.

Also, it has just been announced that three early releases have been made available on iTunes: "shōjo wa 2do shinu" (2009) (), "shōjo toshi keikaku" (2009) () and "shōjo no shōmei" (2010) ().

Urbangarde "TOKYOPOP"
アーバンギャルド 「TOKYOPOP」

1. Tokyo wa Reiwa reiji
2. kotobauri (Word seller)
3. shūsei shugisha (SHINJUKU SYNDROME ver.)
4. mizutama byō (HARAJUKU HOLIC ver.)
5. Meta Sexualis
6. Video no yō ni (Seiho REMIX)
7. FM-ppoi no suki
8. Skirt kakumei (ROPPONGI ROUGE ver.)
9. jisatsu nyūmon (SHIBUYA SUCK ver.)
10. Android rondo
11. shōjo ni shiyagare (NAKANO NOSTALGIC ver.)
12. momoiro Chronicle (REIWA RAP ver.)
13. One Piece Shinjū (Yunomi REMIX)
14. Tokyo bakuhatsu, sono go

zenei toshi FBAC-103
Out now (1/1), ¥3000 (excl. 10% tax)
Order: CDJapan, Amazon, HMV, Tower Records ^†, , Spotify
† Tower Records ships directly within Japan only. International orders are available via WorldShopping.

"kotobauri (Word seller)"

Teaser clip