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Give Me Liberty

by Strip Joint

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    The album sublimates the essence of rock from the 1970s onwards, from indie rock, post-punk, guitar pop to classic rock, with a modern sensibility. The reality of a generation living in the future, spun by words and outstanding songwriting extracted over a period of five years since the band's predecessor, Ceremony, without being at the mercy of the fast-changing scene and trends.
    The sound is a miraculous balance of intelligence and emotion, and although it is no longer a heretic in Japanese pop music, it is those on the border who are the first to receive the signs of change.
    Strip Joint's first album, finally completed, is an honest message to the generation that is struggling with the same crazy everyday life, and will be the first pitch for the coming resonance.

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    The release of the single marks the first step for an artist whose potential to jump categories and borders is evident.
    The title track 'Liquid' rocks with the expansive guitar sounds of The National and The War On Drugs, while the coupling 'Condolation' is a contemporary piano ballad in the vein of James Blake, and this arrangement is only available on the 7" Included on 7" only.
    Side A : Liquid
    Side B : Consolation (Single Version)

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1.
Leisurely 05:16
The autumn sun’s gone down Now the darkness covers the town I collapse in between a verb and a noun In disorder, I almost drown Then I lose my sight So I try to hear what I’ve got to write Through a veil of the night And the paper is still white Leisurely, eternally Oh, seasons change It seems everything turns to be new and strange Thinking of your next day as a day you die Leisurely you break down into a scenery All the rest is passing slowly As a closing ceremony Look at the sky turning red And pray that day’ll be lost in shred Or you’ll be haunted, you’ll be the dead Averting your gaze from what lies ahead Sudden ghosts out of the past Every 24 hours passed Somebody said the next day could be your last You wish to keep, you better grab it fast Leisurely, eternally Oh, seasons change It seems everything turns to be new and strange Thinking of your next day as a day you die Leisurely you break down into a scenery All the rest is passing slowly As a closing ceremony Leisurely, eternally Leisurely, eternally Leisurely, eternally Leisurely, eternally
2.
The night-time, you’re crumbling down Only tonight, you climb with your weight I’ve got nothing straight and nothing great For keeping on my humble crown My lifetime, you’re a blast that roars into life And I’m holding my breath The more you get violent, the more I get silent To let the cloud hide castles in the sky I don’t wanna stay in the same place I wanna break you down Wanna break you down My idiotic crime, you follow me around And then the time comes, we’ll find a way For now, you’re still violent, and I’m still silent To let the cloud hide castles in the sky I don’t wanna stay in the same place I wanna break you down In the boredoms, I lose myself Then it’s too late What moves us is still lust for life In the boredoms, I couldn’t know Why I was always filled with the gloom “So it goes,” I said, “till the life’s over” In the boredoms, I lose myself Then it’s too late What moves us is still lust for life In the boredoms, I couldn’t know Why I was always filled with the gloom “ So it goes,” I said, “till the life’s over” Wanna break you down I will break you Wanna break you down I will break you
3.
Hike 03:13
I remember you were a Sunday hike hound We took a train of Kobe-bound To where they wander around Old, Japanese energetic people They all climbed up there from the downtown Hey hey hey, boy Stop dreaming You ain’t let it burn Anything, any one thing Right before you lying “Here’s our backyard,” You told me so sometimes In that way, I learned the way to see the world Old, Japanese energetic people They all climbed up there from the downtown Hey hey hey, boy Stop dreaming You ain’t let it burn Anything, any one thing Right before you lying Hey hey hey, boy Stop talking ’bout something never happening Any one thing Right before you lying Then I acquired a new habit Living in an imagination Thinking ’bout a lemon juice or a scurvy I know why they don’t understand what I mean Hey hey hey, boy Stop dreaming You ain’t let it burn Anything, any one thing Right before you lying Hey hey hey, boy Stop talking ’bout something never happening Any one thing Right before you lying
4.
I’ve been distracted by a lot of ridiculous problems Don’t you see a person moving behind that wallpaper? Finally, out of it, I’m free Would you like to congratulate me? Would you like to congratulate me? Take a lot of money and Try to choose a life That is environmentally That is environmentally Take a lot of money and a lot of time Try to choose a life That is environmentally friendly That is environmentally friendly Did you go to the polls? I couldn’t, ’cause I was busy moving Oh, what a shame Oh, such a pain Oh, what a shame Oh, such a pain Oh, what a shame Take a lot of money and Try to choose a life That is environmentally That is environmentally Take a lot of money and a lot of time Try to choose a life That is environmentally friendly That is environmentally friendly Oh, what a shame Oh, such a pain Oh, what a shame Oh, such a pain Oh, what a shame
5.
Night Kings 03:31
I, I stare at the mirror To make sure that I’m still here And I, I wake up every time Looking for the reason of A strange longing for you Now lovers come And they’re looking pale It feels like formal feelings come They need to run to the place Where you wear the wings They need to run to the place To be night kings It was a high hope Expect only the good side But we’re still trying to fight on Now nothing will let us slide We’ve been together all night We won’t run away from the bad side Now we’re apart, still trying to fight on Still trying to fight on That is how we decide That is how we decide The night was passing so far Unread books are piled up And I, I wake up every time Looking for the reason of A strange longing for you Now lovers come And they’re looking pale It feels like formal feelings come They need to run to the place Where you wear the wings They need to run to the place To be night kings
6.
I’ve been for a long time Feeling like we did mime In adolescent play-time From the TV program I knew it, that was all set-up I dug behind it being lit up You made me rather hide than stand out So eventually, I was looking for the ghost ship nobody knows I go against the flow With the ones who won’t be gone I’ll go against the flow Against the flow Against the flow There was no one among us Who was ready to dive deep-downwards I needed the weight of the fearless To plunge into the sea of the wickedness I had to go against a current But we signed a peace agreement, oh That was not a huge burden In peace, we were just strangely calm And now, oh shit, nobody goes But I go against the flow When no one won’t be coming along I’ll go against the flow Against the flow Against the flow So my heart is climbing through my throat It’s stuffed up, the air is running out And after all The weather’s ideal And I’m looking for the ghost ship nobody knows I’ll go against the flow With the ones who won’t be gone I’ll go against the flow And looking for the ghost ship nobody knows I’ll go against the flow With the ones who won’t be gone I’ll go against the flow Against the flow Against the flow I’ve been for a long time Feeling like we did mime
7.
I Used To 03:48
I used to be very sure I wasted days and nights When I hated to clean my flat What a dirty young man I just needed a good sleep at length Until the end of the fucking world Now I’m so very sure I wasted days and nights What if I’d not be special after all What if I’d never been Only I believed what I Only I had in my mind Movies, music, books, Only I believed what I Loved Only I had in my mind Movies, music, books, I used to be very sure I wasted days and nights When I hated to clean my flat What a dirty young man I just needed a good sleep at length Until the end of the fucking world Now I’m so very sure I wasted days and nights
8.
Oxygen 04:18
Have you ever been to the deep inner space? In a grave of the shape It’s enough to know the colors there Have you ever seen the excitement rise? In the only place in your mind It’s filled with the fever that never dies down Water’s filled, a room is empty This is why you’ve been choked And you waste strong cigars to get oxygen Oxygen You know it’s all right to love yourself And you know what makes you feel better But you pour your emptiness into all you made And it always takes you back there Have you ever been to the deep inner space? In a grave of the shape It’s enough to know the colors there Have you ever seen the excitement rise? In the only place in your mind It’s filled with the fever that never dies down Water’s filled, a room is empty This is why you’ve been choked And you waste strong cigars to get oxygen Oxygen Water’s filled, a room is empty This is why you’ve been choked And you waste strong cigars to get oxygen Oxygen You know it’s all right to love yourself And you know what makes you feel better But you pour your emptiness into all you made And it always takes... You know it’s all right to love yourself And you know what makes you feel better But you pour your emptiness into all you made And it always takes you back there
9.
Liquid 05:29
Lay down on the way home Then I saw that glaring light And it made me awake again I didn’t know if it’s too late Just take me back there again Lay down on the way home Then I saw that glaring light And it made me awake again I didn’t know if it’s too late Just take me back there again There is nothing breathing here And I’m a trash bag on a street Is it you, is it you there? There is nothing screaming here And I’m left here with nobody Is this me, is this still myself? Let me throw it away Let me throw it away Let me throw…
10.
Consolation 02:40
You’re blinded Here’s the dizzy height You never know why it’s so tight You keep your mind so unclear ’cause you’ve not been there No, you’re not heading anywhere Dewdrops are everywhere Throw ’em to a pane to get some night air It’s bedtime And you’re looking up just like on hold A smoke levelly floats Words are so strong We’ve got oxygen nightlong I found consolation in your grumbling Temptation to move backwards It’s like another variation that you used to do Baby-blue rock ‘n’ roll It’s bedtime And you’re looking up just like on hold A smoke levelly floats Words are so strong We’ve got oxygen nightlong I found consolation in your grumbling Temptation to move backwards It’s like another variation that you used to do Baby-blue rock ‘n’ roll Consolation in your grumbling Temptation to move backwards Another variation that you used to do Baby-blue rock ‘n’ roll
11.
We spent the whole day together For the first time, you showed me your tears You looked so awkward Trying to hide them with your particular smile And I said, trying to comfort you “Sometimes I get depressed too” Then stayed up all night together You let me hold your tender frame Like the only thing I was supposed to do I tried to hide the pleasure you gave me somehow But I confess I liked something about it Then you hated me in the end “Life goes on,” I’d declared As my cruel betrayal It could not be this beautiful It was so, so sweet of you To tell me graciously that I was everything to you And suddenly I loved you But I was like searching something out there With you right in front of me I swallowed words back Like “that’s who I am” It was so, so foolish enough To make up my mind, believing It’d be me who’s leaving And you’d never even tried to leave me ’Cause otherwise I’d feel weak ’bout myself But wasn’t I only a passerby No time to say goodbye “Life goes on,” I’d declared As my cruel betrayal It could not be this beautiful I wonder what Everything once we convinced we hold What it’s all for? I wonder why A bitter taste of my story Still drags me down “Life goes on,” I’d declared As my cruel betrayal It could not be this beautiful “Life goes on,” as I said You left me without a trace It was like your cruel fuckin’ payback It was so beautiful Dreadfully, so beautiful And life goes on

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The album sublimates the essence of rock from the 1970s onwards, from indie rock, post-punk, guitar pop to classic rock, with a modern sensibility. The reality of a generation living in the future, spun by words and outstanding songwriting extracted over a period of five years since the band's predecessor, Ceremony, without being at the mercy of the fast-changing scene and trends.
The sound is a miraculous balance of intelligence and emotion, and although it is no longer a heretic in Japanese pop music, it is those on the borders who are the first to receive the signs of change.
Strip Joint's first album, finally completed, is an honest message to a generation that struggles to look at the same crazy everyday life, and will be the first pitch for the coming resonance.

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released September 26, 2022

Strip Joint : Daiki Kishioka、Aya Tominaga、Momoka Amemiya、Hiroyuki Nishida、Rio Shimamoto、Kei Nakatsuka
All songs written by Daiki Kishioka
Additional Musician : Mayu Suga (Chorus) M1,2,3,5,6

Recorded at Ikashita Sound & SPACE
Engineer : Tetsuya Sugimoto (Space)
Producer : Yoda Taro
Programmer : Takeshi Isogai
Desingner : Yousuke Tsuchida
Photographer : Shiori Ikeno
Mastering Engineer : Soichiro Nakamura (Peace Music)

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