Sayuu: really very weird
You know how your girlfriend, or the wife, gets when she knows she’s right and you know she’s right only you would rather stick needles in your eyes and she keeps rubbing it in she won’t stop she just doesn’t know when it’s enough and she get’s this TONE in her voice?
That’s how Miho Kuwahara of the Japanese musical duo Sayuu (‘left-right’) sings. Selfrighteous, naggy, pushy, pestering, emphasizing each syllable with the beat of a drum or a bass (both played by the dorky Hanaike Hiroki, who also occasionally sings, but more like your autistic brother).
Sayuu’s sound is quite subversive, sometimes even irritating, but it’s also very humorous and with a lot of cool riffs. It gets under your skin. This is not something you put on to get in the mood or read a book by.
It is really very weird.
Sayuu demands your full attention, like the nagging girlfriend does. They have a debut album out, スカムレフト スカムライト, ‘sukamu refuto sukamu raito‘ and I think that means ‘scum left scum right’, so we’re surrounded by scum everywhere.
Which is an undeniable truth. (PB)
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