Hollow Me/Beautiful

Yura Yura Teikoku (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 22, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dfa Records
• ASIN: B002JOGSPQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #246,002 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2009 release from Japan's rockin' weirdos. Yura Yura Teikoku are a bona fide institution at home arguably the only underground Psychedelic group there to have achieved overground success. They've gathered a huge following over the past 20 years yet become progressively stranger and more experimental cramming both weird and classic influences into a unique potent form.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning awesomeness, January 2, 2012

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Dan Bergevin (danbergevin dot com) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hollow Me/Beautiful (Audio CD)

Like some of you non-Japanese readers, I was drawn to this band due to Sion Sono's brilliant film Love Exposure, which featured tracks from this album. The lyrics of one of the tracks (Hollow Me) was even used as a church hymn for the cult featured in this film. I immediately hunted down the musicians responsible, and this is where I ended up.

This was the last studio album recorded by Yura Yura Teikoku before they disbanded. They have been around since the late 80s and was apparently quite popular in Japan. So what we in the US are seeing here is the final flash in the pan before this band vanished forever.

Weird, gorgeous, and accessible, Hollow Me is what pop music would sound like if it was allowed to be original and experimental. It is what psychedelic rock would sound like if it wasn't so serious about the whole "being trippy" crap. Yeah, you may not understand what the singer is saying, but if you're okay with not playing singalong, then you'll be fine. Hell, you'll be more than fine, you'll be ecstatic. After all, this is music that is brilliant, odd, and catchy all at once. And in case you didn't notice, this kind of stuff doesn't come around very often.

0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It'll get its hooks into you, March 8, 2010

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mark in ann arbor (Ann Arbor, MI United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hollow Me/Beautiful (Audio CD)

I'm not sure how I heard of these guys--probably a review somewhere. Sometimes, you just have to take a chance. I wasn't that into this album at first. But when I get a new one I like to play it all the time, sometimes more than once a day, just to see if anything will stick. In other words, I do to MYSELF what Top 40 Radio is doing to everybody else, only I'm doing it with some weird Japanese group.

So after awhile, sure enough, stuff starts to stick. This record has a lot of really nice hooks and things going on. Of course, they're singing in Japanese, so God knows what the songs are about. I hope they're positive messages, and not something about killing your parents or something.

I'd give this one more like 3 1/2 stars. Is it one I say you MUST have? No. But I do like it. And you might like it, too.