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Friday, April 11, 2025

Lafuzin -- Inspiration(インスピレーション)

 

At first, I had thought that Lafuzin's "Inspiration" was something along the lines of a Neo-City Pop song with some really thumpy rhythms. But as I listened to it a few more times, I realized that it's more of a contemporary synthpop tune. The song is part of their September 2022 album "Love Energy Motivation".

Currently, Lafuzin is a duo consisting of Mika Ito(イトオミカ)from Hiroshima and Brian Shinsekai from Tokyo. It had started out in 2020 as a solo act with Ito before Shinsekai officially entered the team in January 2022. As it mentions on the group's website, Ito wanted Lafuzin to represent a Neo-Retro sound, and from what I've been hearing on "Inspiration", some of those synths do bring out the nostalgia in me. At some points in the song, I also get some Pet Shop Boys vibes.

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