Sumire Uesaka -- No Future Vacances（ノーフューチャーバカンス）

 

Here's hoping that your weekend has gone off to a good start. My whole family was out for shopping at the local J-Town earlier today where I pulled the trigger and bought bottles of Peach Calpis and Kirin Milk Tea so we're laden down with the sugar. I had a good tall glass of the former and suffered a bit of a sugar crash. 

But there's nothing like a really sparkly and catchy song to get back on track. It's been quite a few years since I've had seiyuu and singer Sumire Uesaka（上坂すみれ）on the byline. Only recently did I discover the title track from her August 2018 4th studio album "No Future Vacances" and it's quite the banger. It feels like Neo-City Pop with some disco and shiny and gleaming synthpop. And listening to that arrangement made me wonder who was behind the words and music.

There was something especially Especia about it. And whaddaya know? Uesaka was behind the lyrics but the composer/arranger was Toshin Resonant（東新レゾナント）, aka Schtein & Longer, the same fellow behind all those Especia songs. I also found out that songwriter's real name is Yuki Yokoyama. "No Future Vacances" feels like hitting an Ibiza disco floor with one foot in the past and one foot in the future.

I've also noticed that the album "No Future Vacances" contains "Koi suru Zukei (cubic futurismo)"（恋する図形）, a song that had the influence of another group of technopop wizards, TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN FUND.