Buffalo Daughter official channel - Great Five Lakes (radio edit) music video

What this video is

Great Five Lakes was released as a single and album track (New Rock, Grand Royal, March 1998) during the peak and simultaneous critical re-evaluation of the Shibuya-kei movement. Buffalo Daughter occupied an outlier position within Shibuya-kei: considered its experimental 'cut-and-paste' rock linchpin while resisting the label, the band fused TB-303 acid basslines, turntablism, shortwave radio noise, and motorik…

Why it matters

As a centrepiece track from New Rock, Great Five Lakes exemplifies the harder, motorik-leaning wing of late Shibuya-kei, distinct from the lounge-pop and bossa nova axis of Pizzicato Five or Cornelius. Its music video documents the visual language of a Japanese experimental rock band operating on…