THE NOVEMBERS
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Originating from Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture, supple Japanese rockers The Novembers were formed in March 2005 by vocalist YÅ«suke Kobayashi and bassist Hirofumi Takamatsu. A few months later, the group expanded to include drummer Ryousuke Yoshiki and guitarist/keyboard player Kengo Matsumoto. They released two demo albums in 2006 before making their debut on UK Project's Daizawa Records with their self-titled EP of 2007, which drew from alt-rock, shoegaze, and post-rock influences. They cracked the Oricon chart with their debut studio album Picnic (2008) and fared even better commercially with their subsequent two records: Misstopia (2010) and To (Melt Into) (2011). Follow-up LP Zeitgeist (2013) may have slipped off the radar but they made a triumphant return in 2014 with Rhapsody in Beauty, which earned the band a comfortable Top 40 position on Japan's Oricon chart. They spent the next decade putting out albums such as Angels (2019), At the Beginning (2020), and their ninth, saxophone-laced offering The Novembers (2023).
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