The Tokyo psych-and-noise-rock band formed 2002 by Mondo Bohachi: a heavy, redlined reincarnation of the early High Rise aesthetic, filed at the noise-rock edge of the Japanese underground.
Aural Fit is the Tokyo psych-and-noise-rock band formed in October 2002 and led by the guitarist Mondo Bohachi, and the Bureau files it at Tier ∅ as an adjacent entry: the noise-rock, rather than harsh-noise, end of the Japanese underground. The group gave its first performance in 2003 and self-released its debut Livestock in 2004.
The sound is a heavy, bludgeoning, distorted psych-rock with everything pushed into the red. It has been described as the reincarnation of the in-the-red aesthetic of early High Rise, and 'loud' and 'psychedelic' are the only watchwords it needs. This is a rock juggernaut, not an electronics project, and it belongs to the psychedelic noise-rock tradition that runs through the Japanese underground.
After the debut and a track on the PSF compilation Tokyo Flashback 5, line-up changes briefly sidelined the band, and Bohachi later reassembled it from the ground up, with the reconstituted group reportedly noisier and more rock than before.
The Bureau files Aural Fit at Artists · Tier ∅ as Tokyo psych noise-rock of documentary interest: kept not as a noise act in the harsh-electronics sense, but for its clear place in the in-the-red psych lineage this archive already touches through High Rise and Fushitsusha.