Man, is it cold out there. Woke up to something like -22 degrees Celsius this morning and it's not going to get any higher than -10 today. But hey, it's sunny at least although I'm content staying inside for the rest of Saturday.
My first thought on hearing the name of this band Neil & Iraiza was that this was some sort of 60s/70s folk duo. but far from it. Actually, this is an indies rock duo which started up in 1996 and continued until 2011, and after a break of a few years, they got together again in 2015 and are still active according to J-Wiki with Instagram and Twitter accounts. Percussionist Gakuji Matsuda（松田岳二）and keyboardist Hirohisa Horie（堀江博久）make up the duo with both contributing their vocals.
The introduction for us to Neil & Iraiza is "Middle Man" which comes from their debut album "I Love NY" from October 1996. It's quite the interesting blend of Flipper's Guitar-like vocal stylings, the aforementioned indies rock and piano pop. The melody goes along quite swimmingly before this psychedelic guitar barges right in to finish the proceedings.
Along with three singles, a couple of 7-inches, and five albums, Matsuda and Horie have also contributed their songs to compilations created by their old Shibuya-kei-focused record label, Escalator Records before they closed in 2008.
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