Chay shows fans a new shade of Lavender with new album

Popular Japanese vocalist, songwriter, and model chay brought us a lovely shade of lavender with a new album, Lavender, November 13! Chay is known very well known in magazine CanCam as she has been an exclusive model with them since 2014 and she has been in the music industry since 2012. This is chay’s first full length album release in over two years since her chayTEA came out in June of 2017 and third album overall. Lavender comes with fourteen lovely tracks, many of which produced by Takeshi Takebe and the album was released in two beautiful editions. The CD limited edition includes an IC holder with a mobile phone ring selected from one of three kinds and it will also come with a lavender colored case. If you are able to grab the first pressing edition of either edition you will receive a B3 sized poster as a bonus so grab your copies below!

Lavender

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1. 伝えたいこと

2. 大切な色彩

3. 私が私になるために

4. 砂漠の花

5. Snowflake

6. ブーケの行方

7. To Shining Shining Days

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8. ずっと きっと 叶う

9. My Fairy Tale

10. あなたの知らない私たち

11. Girl Friends

12. HIKARI

13. With

14. 小さな手

Check out chay’s newest track Tsutaetai below!

SCANDAL embraces the darkness in new album

Rock band SCANDAL revealed they will be dropping their first album since the creation of their own record label titled “her”. The new album, Kiss from the darkness, will be dropping February 12 next year. Kiss from the darkness is SCANDAL’s ninth album overall and their first album in two years; their last was Honey, released February 14, 2018. The singles that have been released since the formation of her will be on the new album with songs “Masterpiece”, “Blink”, “Fuzzy”, and “Final Weapons”. Kiss from the darkness will mark a new direction for the band. Lead vocalist Haruna commented, “I think you can hear new challenges and experimental parts from the songs that have already been released.” 

The excitingly fresh album is being released in four editions total: a standard CD-only edition, a limited edition Type A which comes with a bonus DVD, a limited edition type B which comes with a magazine, and a limited edition that comes with bonus DVD plus a T-shirt. The full track listing has not yet been revealed but there will be a total of fifteen tracks on the CD. The limited edition Type A DVD will feature a documentary which will follow the members of SCANDAL for the first year of their new label and the DVD for the limited edition will contain a music video for the already released singles. Pre-orders are up and posted below along with the group’s song “Masterpiece”.

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BLUE ENCOUNT shows fans just how bright they can shine with new music video!

On the heels of the release of their upcoming single, popular four-member rock band BLUE ENCOUNT released the music video for their upcoming single “Polaris” on their official YouTube channel. As previously announced, “Polaris” is being used as the opening theme for the fourth season of hit anime My Hero Academia and is the the group’s twelfth single overall. The video shows footage of the boys atop a mysterious cliffside beside the ocean interspliced with colorful sketches of the band, holding a tiny hint of A-ha’s hit “Take On Me”’s iconic music video.

As previously reported, “Polaris” will be released with three editions including a CD-only standard edition, a CD + DVD limited edition, and a CD + DVD special edition. Both the standard edition and the limited edition will drop with only two tracks and the DVD on the special edition will be a special studio live to commemorate the band’s fifth year major label anniversary. Not to be outdone by the other two editions, the special edition also will drop with three tracks along with a TV-size snippet of their song “Polaris” being used for My Hero Academia. The DVD will also include a no-credit version of the opening. Check out the music video in question along with the pre-order links for
“Polaris” below!

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Track listing:

BLUE ENCOUNT「Polaris」

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01. ポラリス

02. girl

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01. ポラリス

02. DAY×DAY

03. だいじょうぶ

04. ポラリス（TV size）

05. ポラリス（Instrumental / TV size）

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Studio Live "to B.E. continued"2019.09.18

01. バッドパラドックス

02. DAY×DAY

03. FREEDOM

04. 幻聴

05. ポラリス

06. だいじょうぶ

07. はじまり

to B.E. continued 2014～2019

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「My Hero Academia」No-Credit opening movie

L'ArChristmas comes to Blu-ray for all the good boys and girls!

L’Arc~en~Ciel, formed in 1991 and one of the most popular and affluent rock groups, will be releasing a special Blu-ray Live 2018 L’ArChristmas December 18! The Live 2018 L’ArChristmas Blu-ray will feature the concert held December 20, 2018 at Tokyo Dome. There will be three dazzling editions: a Blu-ray + 2-CD limited edition, a Blu-ray regular edition, and a DVD regular edition. The limited edition comes with goodies for all the good girls and boys such as two live CDs, a photobook, four Christmas cards, and an ornament selected from four kinds! The regular Blu-ray and DVD edition just feature the concert itself. Also, if you secure the first pressing you receive a Christmas tote bag as a bonus. Mark this on your list today by pre-ordering your copy below.

Live 2018 L’ArChristmas

01. winter fall
02. Caress of Venus
03. snow drop
04. BLESS
05. 接吻
06. fate
07. Dearest Love
08. MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM
09. Hurry Xmas
10. Driver's High
11. DIVE TO BLUE
12. 未来世界
13. 静かの海で
14. trick
15. X X X
16. Wings Flap
17. Link
18. White Feathers
19. Don't be Afraid
20. twinkle, twinkle
21. I Wish
22. 雪の足跡

lol tries to capture lightning in a bottle

Pop unit lol revealed they will be dropping their third album lightning March 20 of next year. The new album is looking to express lightning-like impact and flash with cool dance music. The total number of tracks has yet to be revealed but they have divulged songs such as “Like that!! Pt. 2 feat. Sanari” and “#love_xxx”. lightning is being released in three editions total including a standard edition which will be CD-only, a limited edition which will come with a bonus DVD, and a live edition which will come with its own unique bonus DVD. The limited edition DVD will feature music videos for a bunch of their songs including “Lolipop”, “Like That”, and “Sayonara Kisetsu”, just to name a few. The live edition DVD will feature clips from their upcoming lightning tour. Pre-order links are up and posted below along with the group’s most recent music video “Like that!! Pt. 2 feat. Sanari”.

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