Watch J-Rock Visionary Shintaro Sakamoto’s Trippy “Birth of the Super Cult”

Premiere: The former Yura Yura Teikoku frontman’s second solo album, Let’s Dance Raw, comes out this fall. Steel guitar and weirdness.

July 01, 2014



FADER PREMIERE

Shintaro Sakamoto, former lead singer and guitarist of the decades-running psychedelic J-rock group Yura Yura Teikoku, returns this year with his second solo album, Let’s Dance Raw, out September 16th via Other Music/Fat Possum. The record, as a whole, is guided by his newfound love of steel guitar playing, which renders the usually dazed-seeming Sakamoto like an even more zonked, hula-dancing lounge singer. On "Birth of the Super Cult," he duets with himself via bizarrely pitched-up vocals; in the song's video, he does one of the few things that could make that seem weirder: he gives that voice the body of a ventriloquist's dummy. I could watch the clip, and his hair, forever. Preorder here, and check out the album art below.

Watch J-Rock Visionary Shintaro Sakamoto’s Trippy “Birth of the Super Cult”