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Sug
Lollipop Kingdom CD (2012)
Pregnancy Journal 3rd? In the sometimes stale and predictable world of visual kei, Sug are genuinely different. Since their second album, 2010's Tokyo Muzical Hotel, they have plied a wild, Day-Glo mash-up of pop, punk, and electro that sounds like nothing else. They also have flirted with a wide variety of different genres, but this stylistic diversity has sometimes come at the expense of consistency in quality. This album, however, is not only the most stylistically eclectic they have yet made, but the best since their debut, and also the heaviest. A darker tone is immediately apparent in the band's muted look and the monochrome cover image of an x-rayed skull. And while the playful humor is still present -- the skull is stuffed full of toys and candy -- the music, too, has taken on a darker ...
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