Back in 2018, I introduced a band onto the blog called Special Favorite Music via their 2017 single "Ceremony" which had quite a bit of groove with the interesting inclusion of a violinist and a flutist among their band members.
I'm now going a bit further back in their discography to 2015 when they released their EP "Romantics" with the track of choice today being "Gold". Written and composed by Naohiro Okuda, the brass and violin are more in the foreground here and the whole arrangement sounds like an upbeat indies pop number straight from Shimo-Kitazawa, Tokyo. The music video is pretty fantastical although the slightly out-of-focus shots of people in animal masks were pretty creepy.
According to their Biography page, Special Favorite Music went from a 7-piece band down to a trio from 2019 but from 2024 which was their 10th anniversary, they apparently recruited new members. So, it'll be interesting how the folks sound now.
AT first I was under the impression that I was about to discover a song that was one of your special favorites above all the other songs, but turns out that is the name of the band.This is a very lively and busy song! I am pretty sure I have not heard another song like this before and I am guess that I will probably not run across another song like this for a while.
ReplyDeleteHello, Brian. Yeah, I can imagine that viewers might mistake this article for an Author's Pick. Having said that, SFM is one of the more eclectic bands that I've come across.
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