Kyoto’s Otoboke Beaver return with a new album offering! “ITEKOMA HITS” released on Damnably Records!

With 8 tracks recorded at Osaka’s LM Studio by Ippei Suda who also mixed and mastered the album, plus 6 older tracks recorded at Studio Hanamuaii by Kazutaka Miya, and produced by the band. The album is full of the band’s signature turn-on-a-dime, deranged timings and angular punk-rock-pop-garage fury.

With a fresh transfusion from their new member, the band exude even more energy, playing faster and harder than ever, and each members’ musicianship has room to shine on Accorinrin’s keen compositional skills.

Lead track ‘datsu.hikage no onna’ translates as “Break out, kept woman”, and continues the narrative of anata watashi daita ato…, this time imploring the subject to come out of the shadows and escape from this toxic relationship for good. Don’t Light My Fire’s Japanese title (‘HEART ni hi o tsuketanaraba chanto keshite kaette’) translates as “If you set my heart on fire, put it out and go home”, deals with the contradictory nature of head vs heart, when you know this is not going to be good for you, yet a part of you desires it. The only way to deal with this of course, is to yell a firm no, or even “GO TO HELL”. Otoboke Beaver are a punk-rock-garage quartet from Kyoto, Japan. Formed at Kyoto University’s music club, the band consists of Accorinrin (Lead Vocal & Guitar), Yoyoyoshie (Guitar & Vocals), Hirochan (Bass & Vocals) and Kahokiss (Drums & Vocals). Acco’s off-kilter self taught compositional and confrontational performance skills, together with the band’s incredible musicianship make for a thrilling and unmissable live act.

Damnably Records released the compilation ‘Okoshiyasu!! Otoboke Beaver’ in March 2016, which was championed by Gideon Coe and Tom Ravenscroft on BBC 6Music & John Kennedy on XFM.

2017 was a breakthrough year for the band, with attention from Pitchfork, NPR, i-D and The Fader, acclaimed debuts at SXSW and Fujirock Festival, a sold-out show in London’s legendary 100 Club, and their ‘Love Is Short’ 7” charted in the UK for 4 weeks. In 2018 the band’s ‘ATTYUUMA’ tour saw them travel over 24,000 miles in a week on a UK tour that was bookmarked by slots at Coachella Festival.

“a rhythm-twisting, no-nonsense, Japanese girl gang more than worthy of an invitation into the riot grrrl scene” – Stereogum “Otoboke Beaver demand your undivided attention from the first note, asserting that if they’re going to be heartbroken, it will be on their own terms.” – Pitchfork

“vicious but tuneful punk-rock assaults” – AV Club