Hip elderly couple Final Spank Happy makes some incredibly chill music
This couple looks like she’s a French teacher and he teaches art and they met each other in the teacher’s room and discovered they have a lot in common (some differences, though; she’s into French New Wave movies, he likes Doom: Eternal) and in the weekends they like to dress up and and eat in hip restaurants.
No matter. They make really chill, sort of timeless music, something between Acid Jazz and R&B, spiced with some New Romantics. They brought out an album in 2019, Mint Exorcist and this is a new song and the abode, hopefully, of a new album. I had never geard of Final Spank Happy and you almost certainly didnt either. The only info I was able to find about them is in Japanese.
So it appears Final Spank Happy is the third incarnation of a formation that began as Spanks in the nineties, then people left and the formation became known as Spank Happy, a nod to a German band called Slapp Happy and this is the final version, Final Spank Happy.
This video was shot after hours in one of the important warehouses of Tokyo, Isetan in Shinjuku. I always buy something for Hassnae there when I’m in Tokyo. Usually something by Anna Sui. (PB)





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