Japan’s record-breaking girl band SCANDAL becomes JPU Records’ 100th CD release with bright new album LUMINOUS. The 11-track release is the band’s 11th studio album and is also available to download and stream from today, alongside the premiere of brand-new music video ‘Fanfare’, the opening theme to female-led racing anime HIGHSPEED Étoile.
London-based Japanese music specialists JPU Records is excited to announce that the album will be its 100th CD release. To mark the special milestone, and to celebrate the power of SCANDAL, four physical editions of LUMINOUS will be released overseas, each one containing unique cover art and packed with bonus exclusive content that’s available in English for the first time. It’s available to pre-order now.
LUMINOUS follows SCANDAL’s recognition by Guinness World Records as “the longest running rock band with the same musicians (female)“. The band states that the album might be their most honest and open to-date, and sees them throw-out their own rule book in order to write material in a deeper way than ever before. LUMINOUS includes fast-paced tracks such as ‘Line of sight’, chosen as a tie-in to arcade game Mobile Suit Gundam Arsenal Base LINXTAGE where it plays during key battles and action scenes, as well as bitter-sweet pop tracks, a song influenced by their 90s / 2000s roots, and even a track written out of frustration from a cancelled world tour leg as a member is quarantined to a hotel room thousands of miles from home.
JPU Records’ four editions of LUMINOUS are; the Magazine Edition, including “her” Magazine vol.4, an A4 64-page publication printed in English that’s packed with exclusive photos and interviews with the band; The Video Edition, sporting an hour-long video on demand SCANDAL documentary entitled “her Diary 2023: Special Edition”, offering a special look into the production of LUMINOUS and SCANDAL’s journey to this point in their career and featuring English subtitles for the first time; The T-shirt Edition, featuring the official double-sided LUMINOUS t-shirt, printed in one of five sizes especially for international fans; and the Standard CD Edition. All editions also include JPU Records’ exclusive extra booklet featuring English lyric translations and Romaji lyric transliterations, so fans can enjoy the lyrics regardless of Japanese language skills.
Scandal links
All four versions are available to pre-order now exclusively from jpurecords.com
LUMINOUS Tracklist
- Gunjō pleats (群青pleats)
- Fanfare (ファンファーレ)
- Watashi-tachi (私たち)
- Plum
- CANDY
- Vision
- LOOP
- Line of sight
- Anata e (あなたへ)
- 1:47
- Highlight no Nakade Bokura Zutto (ハイライトの中で僕らずっと)
SCANDAL are:
RINA – drums
MAMI – guitar
HARUNA – guitar
TOMOMI – bass
About SCANDAL:
SCANDAL formed in 2006 in Kyobashi, Osaka and made their major label debut in 2008 with “DOLL”. The following year they won the Record Award for Newcomer of the Year with single “Shojo S”. The band has a large following in Japan and abroad, leading them to perform at festivals and conduct tours across the world. Their music has appeared in some of Japan’s biggest anime franchises, including Pokémon, Bleach and GeGeGe no Kitaro. In recent years SCANDAL has also gained attention as fashion icons, producing their own apparel brand “Feedback!”. In 2019 they established their own record label, “her”, and are one of Japan’s leading girl bands.
