Shonen Knife Sharpens Its, Uh, Blade

We think an intern wrote that header...luckily we have an MP3 below for you to ease the pain.

By Blurt Staff

The Knife is back. Everyone's fave Nipponese-rockers is set to drop a new album, Super Group, on August 25 via Good Charamel Records. You know the back story - they formed in Osaka circa '81, and then somehow in the early ‘90s their naïf-pop, girl-group-goes-Ramones sound was discovered by legions of American hipsters and before you know it they'd toured with Nirvana and played Lollapalooza.

Since the original member and bassist Atsuko moved to Los Angeles and left the band, Naoko and Etsuko played with support bassists.  On the new album Super Group, support bassist Ritsuko has joined the band as an official member.  Now Shonen Knife has become a 3 piece band again and a super group was born.

In 2007, they released an album fun! fun! fun! in Japan.  Since then, they've spent very busy days playing lots of shows, they enjoyed a North American tour, recorded a cover song for an AC/DC tribute album and played at many international rock festivals.  In 2009 Shonen Knife signed a deal with Good Charamel Records (www.goodcharamel.com ) to release Super Group to the fans in North America!  Tours of Europe, Australia and North America will follow the release of the new Super Group CD.

MP3 - "Super Group"

The concept of Super Group is to "go back to the starting point of ROCK", says the band.  All the lyrics on Super Group are written in English.  The first song "Super Group" is very punk pop like the Buzzcocks.  "Muddy Bubbles Hell" and "Pyramid Power" taste like Heavy Metal.  "BBQ Party" starts with a Jonathan Richman like intro and transforms into punk rock.  The harmony at the last part of "Na Na Na" is very cute.  The last song is a cover of Paul McCartney and the Wings song "Jet", the Shonen Knife version is very fun and very ROCK. The North American CD release of Super Group features exclusive cover artwork and the bonus track, "Evil Birds". 

"This album makes everybody happy," we are advised. We at BLURT are already happy just thinking about it.

Tracklisting:

01. Super Group
02. Slug
03. Muddy Bubbles Hell
04. Deer Biscuits
05. BBQ Party
06. Pyramid Power
07. Time Warp
08. Na Na Na
09. Your Guitar
10. Jet
11. Evil Birds (bonus track)