SINGLE

Hadaka No Osama:

Although this song was written before their debut, and it posesses the same floating feeling and folk mentality that their previous single did. It sounds like a simple country/folk tune at first, but a when the full range of percussion (drums, bongo, cajon, snare rolls and bongo rolls) kicks in, the subtle rhythm begins to change the course of the song.. It is an extremely sophisticated song that listeners never seem to get bored of. Also, toward the end of the song each sound represents a distinct mood and this diversity makes one forget the fact that the song is over 6 minute long.

This is a love song:

This song is an answer song to “This is not a love song” from Neil&Iraiza’s second album “NEW SCHOOL”. The supporting keyboard/guitar player for LOVE PSYCHEDELICO, Hirohisa Horie also plays piano on this song. The vocal key repeatedly shifts between high and low and the well- blended backing vocals help create a very pop and comfortable sound.

GRAPEFRUITS:

The guitar riff maintains the medium tempo and Kumi keeps shouting the phrase. It sounds like this might be a a typical rock song, but its simple composition actually makes it a pop song It really has something special and has become one of DELICO’s more appealing songs.

Following the release of their second album” LOVE PSYCHEDELICO ORCHESTRA”, LOVE PSYCHEDELICO created its own musical world during their national tour “circle of mind” . As the saying goes, “once one journey ends, another begins” and with the singe “Hadaka No Osama”, LOVE PSYCHEDELICO were about to enter a new world.

One may want to question why this would be considered a “new world” when one realizes that the was originaly written before their debut and had been performed numerous times at their shows. However what one should take note of is the fact that LOVE PSYCHEDELICO displayed their admiration and irony towards the rock world before they thesemlves were rock giants, seemingly predicting the situation around them before they had a chance to experience it. . In other words, fate, I believe, intervened in “Hadaka No Osama” being released as single when it was.
As for the lyrics, there is no good definition, but the opening of the song with its acoustic guitar and percussion reminds one of a blend of 60’s folk music and Beat culture (a youth culture represented by the novel “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac). Here we can feel the the DELICO spirit and the synchronicity that exists intheir world.

In 2002, they are looking straight towards to the future. The percussion part of this song sounds simple but in actuality, they dubbed the part five times, and this really represents their contemporary talent which is often valued as being very technical. The remaining two songs were written after the “circle of mind” tour and are very new and fresh in approach. One of these songs “This is a love song” is drawn from Neil&Iraiza’s “This is not a love song” and it elaborates on the tendencies of the Brit-popstyle. “Grapefruits”, while shares a title with a book by Yoko Ono,, has impressive lyric phrasings with an interesting vocal style, that can neither be described as shouting or rap.. The style of this song is quite original and LOVE PSYCHEDELICO seem to take a new approach to their music. Also noteworthy is that LOVE PSYCEDELICO creates a character named “Rosalita” and this character helps them to develop their new lyrical world. I believe this development is something that will influence their future work, to a point where it would not be too far out of place to say that LOVE PSYCHEDELICO is GRAPEFRUITS. That is to say, they share something in common with the world symbolized by Yoko Ono’s “Grapefruits”. Based on this kind ofinterpretation, I believe these three songs are quite meaningful. The cover art t of their debut single “LADY MADONNA/Yuutsu Naru Spider” features an apple which is also the name of the label founded by The Beatles. Thus from apple to grapefruits, we may be able to say that they bear new fruit with the magic of music.

Text by Yu Onoda