FUJIYA & MIYAGI RETURN WITH BRAND NEW ALBUM
Fujiya & Miyagi return with brand new album New Shiny Object released 30th October via Impossible Objects Of Desire.
Crafted over a relentless four-year period of feverish south coast recording sessions, the new album is a potent, succinct reminder of their art-pop skills. Lead single – and album opener – ‘Lowest Common Denominator’ has traces of seminal NYC no wave crew Bush Tetras in that sloping bassline, it’s a call to arms for simplicity that thrives on under-statement before ending on a sleek, full-band heads-down workout. “This one’s not that deep,” says singer David Best in typically self-effacing style. “Its main aim is to make people dance which I think is as valid reason as any other for a song to exist.”
The new record also marks 26 years of Fujiya & Miyagi and 20 years since their breakthrough album Transparent Things became a global hit. This saw the band tour the world for the first time and gain notoriety of a different kind through a Jaguar car advert featuring the slinky rhythms of ‘Collarbone’. Follow up third album Lightbulbs (2008) led to a synch in cult TV show Breaking Bad with the hip-shaking funk of ‘Uh’.
Initially the plan was for New Shiny Object to have been recorded live, with Fujiya & Miyagi stripping back their sound to the bare essentials. “I wanted us to write melodies that really touched people” says singer David Best. “There’s a tendency to pour your guts out on everything, whether that’s musically or verbally. I think music’s better when it’s got a bit of space. We wanted all the parts of each song to connect like the mechanism in a watch.”
New Shiny Object is the work of a band for whom the latest challenge is always the most thrilling. The title song draws from the stubborn energy that has kept Fujiya & Miyagi motoring along for more than two decades, navigating a difficult industry with values and dignity intact. “When you are writing a song or coming up with ideas it’s always the new ones that are most exciting,” David points out. “At its core though it’s about the thirst for new ideas and the joy in creating something from nothing. Which will never not be a magical thing.”
For fans of LCD Soundsystem, Neu!, CAN, Talking Heads and New Order, New Shiny Object is Fujiya & Miyagi’s unique and thoughtful take on everyday life, transformed into art and ready for the dancefloor.
New Shiny Object is released 30th October via Impossible Objects Of Desire.
Pre-order the album on vinyl, cd and digital here: https://bio.to/Fujiya-Miyagi
Photo by Thomas Martin
