Tokyo Pinsalocks' bio

With one eye on the past and the other firmly on the future, all-girl groove-pop trio tokyo pinsalocks are one of Japan’s most exciting bands. With a tight sound comprising colourful synth, distorted bass, creative drums and dreamlike vocals, their music is fresh, eclectic and danceable, with an artistic sensibility that garners them as much respect from the world of fashion and art as within music.

Since their 2000 inception in Tokyo, tokyo pinsalocks have played innumerable shows around Japan, including Sapporo’s revered Rising Sun Rock Festival. They put out two mini-albums and a single before the release of their first full-length, ‘rhythm channel’, as a four-piece in 2005 – a joyful collection of popped-up pysch-outs that created a sound all of their own while doing grand justice to the band’s heroes Kraftwerk, Bjork and Super Junky Monkey.

A period of change followed. The band’s guitarist, Tomocchi, left, and rather than replace her, they sought to redefine their sound. The result was 2007’s ‘Plutonium EP’, a joyful set of stripped-back pop that ditched the guitar and offered something lean and powerful. And March 2008 sees the release of ‘Planet Rita’, a bright mini-album released in Japan through new-wave/ new-rave label Kimono, featuring heavenly rhythms and sunshine-inflected psychedelic pop tunes. close