Tokyo's Coolest Sound

Vanilla Beans will have a new single released in January! This adds a rare (first?) minor scale song to their repertory with title track "toki no kakera", which can be seen performed in the clip below from a recent morning TV show.

The single comes in two editions ("Rena" and "Lisa"), each with a different jacket, but also with a different cover of songs by Yamashita Kumiko. Rena sings "hoshi ni natta uso" (YouTube) and Lisa "Stop Stop Rock'n'Roll" (YouTube), and each sings chorus on the other's. Which will you choose?

Vanilla Beans "toki no kakera"
バニラビーンズ 「トキノカケラ」

Rena ver.
1. toki no kakera
2. Yes? No?
3. hoshi ni natta uso
4. toki no kakera (Instrumental)
5. Yes? No? (Instrumental)

T-Palette Records TPRC-0007
Out 1/18, ¥1000
Order: CDJapan, Amazon, HMV, Tower ^†
† Tower Records ships within Japan only

Lisa ver.
1. toki no kakera
2. Yes? No?
3. Stop Stop Rock'n'Roll
4. toki no kakera (Instrumental)
5. Yes? No? (Instrumental)

T-Palette Records TPRC-0008
Out 1/18, ¥1000
Order: CDJapan, Amazon, HMV, Tower ^†
† Tower Records ships within Japan only

"toki no kakera" (from TV show Ulala78 (Tokyo MX), December 14, 2011)

See also:
"Vanilla Beans II"
"VaniBest"