applehead | SONORE

Mayutan is a pink and fluffy living thing, accidentally touching down on earth after a journey gone wrong through outer space in search of a lost pet.Finding life on our planet to her liking, this extraterrestrial android creature decided to stay on. One day at the local supermarket, R40, she made friends with two rabbit-like forty year-olds, Fredy and Candy.They started a band together and settled on the name applehead.Mayutan likes planet Earth (ILCQ = I love chikyu) and enjoys exploring it. All is well, so long as no one treads on her tail.

But don’t be taken in by a cute story. This electro-fur pop ensemble has real bite (was Snow White really a virgin?). Fascinated by 80s new-wave (Devo and YMO), they are also into and part of today’s techno pop scene.Operating out of the electro zone of Akihabara, they have plenty in common with the manga-otaku-cosplay tendencies of the neighbourhood, not least in terms of their looks.applehead are in with the techno pop kids who’re on the rise in Tokyo right now (Binary Kidd, Urbangarde, Souchi Megane) but are also close to proud veterans like Techma! and Mecha-Elvis.

With a strong leaning towards visual fantasy, applehead live shows are a real party filled with blow-up animals and luminous decorations.Several successful appearances in France, notably at the LEX festival in Nîmes in 2007 and in Paris not far from Bimbo Tower and Dragibus, and applehead have decided to put out their debut album.A perfect hands-on production by the band themselves along with mastering from the incomparable Nagata Kazunao (ExT Recordings), give the album rare stature.