Nisennenmondai's Destination Is Tokyo

Nisennenmondai are three women from Tokyo who have been playing instrumental music together since they first met in college over a decade ago. During that time their sound was a closely guarded secret tucked away on the island of Japan. It wasn't until last year when Smalltown Supersound released their two EP's Neji and Torias one album that the band was introduced to an audience outside of their homeland. With a global presence and a desire to conquer the world, Nissennenmondai headed in to the studio and in one take sat down and recorded their debut album, Destination Tokyo.

Destination Tokyo is an album of looped maniacal sounds that seem to stretch on forever and ever. With a minimal and repetitive approach the band build up a head of steam and proceed to launch off into an infinity crowded with cosmic noisy jams. Destination Tokyo is crazy stuff that's sounds as if it's about to explode into a million pieces but thanks to the aid of repetition the record never quite gets there. As mind numbing, chaotic and repetitive as this album is, it finds the way to weave a sense of melodicism throughout that will offer your mind a sense of comfort as it's driven to the brink and back again.

Whipping themselves into a frenzy throughout Destination Tokyo it almost seems like Nisennenmondai have a hard time stopping once they get started. In fact, you get the sense that these three girls could literally just play themselves into the grave on an endless set of instrumental madness. Having looped Destination Tokyo a few times myself it's pretty evident that these girls are clearly at the top of their game and they aren't afraid to abuse their instruments to get every single last note out of them. They beat their instruments, throw them around, bash them, and then wring them out just to get as much energy out of them as humanly possible and the results are a whirlwind of progressive Krautrock influenced post punk chaos.

Destination Tokyo is far from a record loaded with singles, instead it is a record with a singular mission...to just jam and jam it does...forever. Awesome stuff indeed.