{"product_id":"melt-banana-teen-shiny","title":"Melt Banana: Teen Shiny - VINYL LP","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTeen Shiny\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eMelt Banana\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eA-Zap Records\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eVINYL LP\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e655035200316\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003ePunk\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2000-12-12\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Melt-Banana describe their third self-released album as \"pop and nice,\" a claim to which numerous incredulous subscribers to the band's mailing list have replied, \"No pop!\" and \"Extreme, please!\" This angular Pythagorean-core HC quartet supposes that the words \"pop\" and \"nice\" have slightly different nuances those outside their native Japan are failing to see; perhaps they mean \"pop\" not in the Celine Dion sense, but in the Andy Warhol sense, \"nice\" not as in smashing a bunch of garbage together and expecting fans to swallow it out of habit, but as in well-crafted, hairball mania. Even as the band acknowledges that Teeny Shiny is punk, noisy, screeching, and fast, they steadfastly maintain that it is pop and nice for them. Though a mad scientist from 2788 has given vocalist \/ lyricist Yako a heart the size of a lion's (engorged with futuristic steroids) and her voice goes spitting and whizzing above it all as 5,000 volts surge through her skinny torso; and given that the mad scientist has screwed with guitarist Agata's brain so that his guitar-playing resembles a synth and two turntables; and taking into account the Melt-Banana rhythm section's ability to keep up with a machine gun demonstration without breaking a sweat - conditions that all apply to Teeny Shiny, fictionalized or not - they're not backing down from the assertion that their new album is pop and nice. Sometimes you just gotta trust people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Free the Bee \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Flash Cube, or Eyeball \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Lost in Mirror \u003cbr\u003e1.4 First Contact to Planet Q \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Warp, Back Spin \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Third Attack \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Cub, Not Cube \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Flip and Hit \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Bright Splat (Red Point, Black Dot) \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Skit Closes, Windy \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Moon Flavor\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Melt Banana","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32311903125575,"sku":"07675980","price":18.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/345313.jpg?v=1747714932","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/melt-banana-teen-shiny","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}