I just noticed from the band’s MySpace page that “SAKURAグッバイ” (Sakura Goodbye), the second single by all-girl Japanese rock band Scandal, is coming out on March 4th. It comes in two editions, the “deluxe” first edition (pictured below, on the left), which comes with a DVD or something, and the “regular” edition (below right).
Both editions have three songs, “Sakura Goodbye”, “Tokyo”, and an instrumental version of “Sakura Goodbye” (to meet all your karaoke needs). You can hear brief samples of both tracks here — “Sakura Goodbye” is typical Scandal, lots of chunky guitar and youthful energy, but “Tokyo” has a sort of robotic New Wave sound to it, rather unlike anything the band’s tried before (in their entire, um, six song catalog).
As an aside, I was bummed to see that Scandal isn’t in the line-up for the Japan Nite tour this year, as they were the highlight of last year’s show.
