¡HELLO YELLOW
¡D.W. Nichols
Description
[Machine Translation] D.W. Nichols has been playing universal music without being influenced by the times under the motto of "music that will not fade away even 10 years from now. HELLO YELLOW" is a song for people who do not know D.W. Nichols yet, for people who know his name but have never heard his music, and for all people living in today's world, "HELLO" is a song for a new beginning. YELLOW" is the image color of music that smells of the sun and the earth, simple and straightforward messages, and friendly and humorous characters such as Watanabe. The title of their fourth full-length studio album, their first in about five years, is loaded with such meanings. It is a new name card for Nichols. The opening track, which starts with banjo and hand clapping, is filled with the energetic voices of children, and the album starts off with the uplifting atmosphere typical of the Nichols'. The lead track, "Haru no Uta" (Songs of Haru), is a song about the feelings of sadness, loneliness, and anxiety that always exist in the shadow of the spring weather, and the words, voices, and music of someone who encourages and supports them. With a refreshing acoustic guitar and bouncy beat, the song "Kanashimi wa Kaze no Innae, Sayonara (Into the Wind, Goodbye)" is a new spring anthem by Nichols, which shows the depth of life in its freshness and sadness. The songs, spun with Watanabe's life-sized words, feel more familiar and reach deep into the listener's heart. A wide variety of instruments appear throughout the album, but what is particularly impressive is the large number of acoustic instruments. Guitar, banjo, ukulele, dobro, wood bass, bongo, wind chimes.... These instruments alone may sound like a country band or a jug band, but what unfolds is simple, wide-open pop music with a message for today's world. This is a perfect example of Nichols' unique "neo-country-pop" style, which has been performed since the band's first nationally distributed release 10 years ago, "To Love. The song "Ai ni" (released 10 years ago for the first time for national distribution) and "haleiwa," which has been performed since the band's formation, are also re-recorded, but they sound even brighter today than they did 10 years ago, as if to prove the universality that has been D.W. Nichols' motto for a long time. HELLO YELLOW" is a work that symbolizes the "fresh universality" of D.W. Nichols, and will continue to resonate freshly and be loved for a long time, not only 10 years from now, but even beyond that.
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