Founding Facebook group for Japanese music turned out to be quite expensive. My album shopping list have many new bands which you will hear more about here in future. I don’t think I found Tricot from there. It was Youtube recommendations which thought I would like them based on videos I found from the group. This is their first song I heard. It was interesting at first. Felt like needs more listening. When I watched other videos their style started to open. Before watching this video I had bit of overdose of female lead Japanese rock bands. It felt like every band had two guitars which were Fenders or copies of Fender and bass which was Fender or copy of Fender. Just like Tricot.
What makes Tricot different is how they use those instruments. It is the guitarist and how rest of the music works with her playing. I wouldn’t be surprised if their songs start from those guitar parts. Style might take little time to get used to listen but it is worth it. I can’t help but wonder why her Stratocaster is missing bridge pickup. Usually the bridge pickup is the one to use and other ones give more mellow tones if you want them. But she obviously knows what she is doing.
Tricot is releasing new album next week. Same day as couple other albums on my shopping list are released. This song will be on that album.