Lite Pop is the first EP released by the Japanese all-girls band Noodles after their label hop from Benten to Sawao Yamanaka's (of Pillows fame) Delicious Label, and you can truly hear the difference.
Here Yoko, Junko, Ikuno and Ayumi come out with the rocking guitar-pop title track in "Lite Pop," which proves to be a veritable, rolling rock song, in contrast to their sentimental, pretty songs from Benten. It keeps up the rocking mood with "Ootobai" [Motorcycle], then move right along into the catchy girlish "Small Small King." Following is the beautiful and dreamy ballad "think," and the disc comes to a close with a grungy, brief, and no-nonsense rocker, "OH OH."
Time-wise, this EP isn't very long at all, but the material is worth its weight in gold (for any Noodles listener, casual and avid alike). With this, the band established a certain signature sound, that seemed to be lacking in previous records. This is where they started as the baby- doll vocalled, pop-rocking aura they have now. Overall, I would say 4.8 out of 5 glasses of milk for this one.
Here Yoko, Junko, Ikuno and Ayumi come out with the rocking guitar-pop title track in "Lite Pop," which proves to be a veritable, rolling rock song, in contrast to their sentimental, pretty songs from Benten. It keeps up the rocking mood with "Ootobai" [Motorcycle], then move right along into the catchy girlish "Small Small King." Following is the beautiful and dreamy ballad "think," and the disc comes to a close with a grungy, brief, and no-nonsense rocker, "OH OH."
Time-wise, this EP isn't very long at all, but the material is worth its weight in gold (for any Noodles listener, casual and avid alike). With this, the band established a certain signature sound, that seemed to be lacking in previous records. This is where they started as the baby- doll vocalled, pop-rocking aura they have now. Overall, I would say 4.8 out of 5 glasses of milk for this one.
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