With moumoon's latest single currently featuring in anime-of-the-moment Assassination Classroom, there's never been a better time to check the act out. Headed up by vocalist YUKA, the band's style is dizzyingly eclectic, blending dance, pop and rock influences alongside a heady mix of English and Japanese lyrics.
PASSEPIED, meanwhile, offer up an arguably more clean-cut blend of styles, tracks like Matatabistep pairing a whirling electro riff to a sprightly pop-rock melody. It makes for an energetic combination, and with the show touted as PASSEPIED's first performance outside Japan, it should be make for quite the event. The band were previously featured as part of CMU's regular 'Approved' feature and we were intrigued to hear about the band's policy of only revealing their faces at live shows - something somehow wonderfully quaint in an age of social networks and widespread media saturation.
We attended the pre-Japan Rising event at the Pipeline last year, and it makes for a thrillingly electric night - the basement venue dashed in neon graffiti, whilst the bar upstairs serves good food and drink. With this year's event arguably upping the ante with more prominent acts, it makes for a bit of a gotta-be-there show for fans of Japanese music, especially if you can't make it down to Brighton for the Japan Rising event-proper.
More details on the May 13th show are available here.
