2LP - Clear Vinyl. Features the original album + an additional LP of Demos.
Kishi Bashi's debut full-length is a bright and soaring avant-pop record written primarily on violin - Kishi Bashi's main instrument which has brought him to record and tour with the likes of Regina Spector, Sondre Lerche, Alexi Murdoch, of Montreal and more.
Kishi Bashi uses Japanese singing as another of many layers, doing so without any trace of gimmickry, and achieving what, to Western ears, must sound like an expression of the ineffable. After lead track 'Intro / Pathos, Pathos' a soaring yet concise amalgam of all that is to come, the record unfolds with a gentle, and somehow grander revisiting of two songs from Room for Dream, reigniting their purpose with subtle variations that serve the larger arc of this LP.
Tracklist:
LP1
1. Intro / Pathos, Pathos
2. Manchester
3. Bright Whites
4. It All Began With a Burst
5. Wonder Woman, Wonder Me
6. Chester's Burst Over the Hamptons
7. Atticus, In the Desert
8. I Am the Antichrist to You
9. Beat the Bright Out of Me
LP2
1. Intro / Pathos, Pathos (Demo-arigato Version)
2. Manchester (Demo-arigato Version)
3. Bright Whites (Demo-arigato Version)
4. It All Began With a Burst (Demo-arigato Version)
5. Wonder Woman, Wonder Me (Demo-arigato Version)
6. Unicorns Die When You Leave (Demo-arigato Version)
7. Chester’s Burst Over the Hamptons (Demo-arigato Version)
8. Atticus, In the Desert (Demo-arigato Version)
9. I Am the Antichrist to You (Demo-arigato Version)
10. Beat the Bright Out of Me (Demo-arigato Version)
11. Winter from Shiki (Demo-arigato Version)