The Tokyo psych-and-noise-rock band formed 2002 by Mondo Bohachi: a heavy, redlined reincarnation of the early High Rise aesthetic, 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 I keep 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.
I keep 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.
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