This album is fucking amazing. Exhibits A, B, C, D and E:
In fact it is in severe danger of taking over our lives, but for one 'friend of Popjustice' it is already too late. To days ago, in an email whose subject line read 'Japanese Popstars', our correspondent asked:
No, we replied. Should we give it a spin?
We noted in our response that the album, true to our friend's prediction, was indeed literally quite good.
Shame they can't spell JAPANESE.
But — yes, it's LITERALLY GOOD!
Yours, Dr Frenchy Bernard"
A few hours passed and then, when we were trying to get on with some work… Ping!
Things went quite for a while and then at 9:34am the following day, the following arrived…
Half nine in the morning. This correspondence was from a man whose fleeting dalliance with the Japanese Popstars album had somehow trapped him in a sort of endless rave hell. "We're listening to the '70s Dinner Party' album," we replied. Our chum was unimpressed.
It's hard to argue with logic like that, or a song which looks like this.
Which is most of the songs on 'We Just Are'. Anyway the band's MySpace is here and the v good album's out at the end of next month.