Shinobu
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Considered one of the foundational bands of the indie-punk genre, Shinobu has been cited as an influence by both <a href="spotify:artist:7qbvNcfTfckhCNM8NiR8nN" data-name="Joyce Manor">Joyce Manor</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:16QCJENzcdhwka9bTKYMVB" data-name="Touché Amoré">Touché Amoré</a>. But back in 2002, when they began, they mostly seemed to confuse audiences. Back then, they used to describe their unique mixture of punk spirit, improvisational energy, and indie rock sensibility as “kind of loud and annoying,” in their self-written band bio. “Too underappreciated for too long,” is how Vice described them in 2015, when the band released their last album, the kaleidoscopic <a href="spotify:album:6gCtM11EYj4jy9EZmOUP6J" data-name="10 Thermidor">10 Thermidor</a>. Both their most respected and most conceptual album, <a href="spotify:album:6gCtM11EYj4jy9EZmOUP6J" data-name="10 Thermidor">10 Thermidor</a> is an indie rock fever dream of interrupted revolutions and traumatic echoes. It’s only appropriate that this album about echoes and reoccurrences be re-issued again now, a decade later, via Lauren Records. The band commemorated this anniversary with a west coast tour alongside Japanese punk legends, <a href="spotify:artist:2dP0aHVXt8dDPCw5d2Jw0m" data-name="GING NANG BOYZ">GING NANG BOYZ</a>. In their original run, Shinobu were at the front of a wave of millennial DIY indie-punk bands on Asian Man Records, who released the band’s second album, <a href="spotify:album:2OV2oPKtGpJcm9KUfNpWr6" data-name="Worstward, Ho!">Worstward, Ho!</a>, in 2005. After becoming friends with labelmates <a href="spotify:artist:7mmU5GuOoyxoBAgOZkSVj7" data-name="Bomb the Music Industry!">Bomb the Music Industry!</a>, Shinobu released their next two records, <a href="spotify:album:1MpwnCS1RDoXJUjtwLmVLA" data-name="Strange Spring Air">Strange Spring Air</a> and <a href="spotify:album:6gCtM11EYj4jy9EZmOUP6J" data-name="10 Thermidor">10 Thermidor</a>, on Jeff Rosenstock's Quote Unquote Records (with vinyl co-released by Lauren Records and Really Records). Photo: Chris Chappell
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