Brian the Sun(ブライアンザサン) - The Sun Album Thoughts(J-rock)

1 The World
2 Sunny side up from your heaven’s kitchen
3 ポラリス
4 カフネ
5 Sunny side up
6 boys
7 One
8 She’s lost a gun
9 ねこの居る風景 (Album version)
10 Winter Train
11 the Sun

   Brian The Sun is a group of guys that have been making music for years before the made it into the mainstream Japanese music market. The boys have released a couple of independent mini albums. Even filming music videos along with them but the band never gained huge success. Soon they were scouted and signed to a major label. They have only released two albums if you include this one(The Sun). That didn't stop the band's song's from being featured on popular anime such as March Comes in Like a Lion(which has started airing a new season by the way.).

  Brian The Sun is one of those bands that didn't need much change in their music production. You know how some bands that are in the indie scenes sound kind of amateurish when you listen to them. These band do however have the potential to be something great so a professional producer will get their hands on their music, then tweak it up before their major label debut. Brian The Sun didn't need anyone to upgrade their sound. I listened to a few of their songs when they were indie and the boys had that quality to be popular even without guidance from a major label's producer in Japan. Their first major album didn't sound like too much of an departure from their indie stuff honestly. The Sun just follows suit in this idea. Your speakers or earphones are about to be filled with a youthful rock party fueled by consumption of red bull. The tracklist of The Sun doesn't rock out too hard though. They clearly decided long ago to be a more soft rock band. Guitars don't go over the drums but they definitely let you know that they are apart of the party. Noted in the guitarists skill to play advanced solos while still not being too noisy. Yes, I would go as far as to say that Brian the Sun is pop rock for the most part. The Sun does show a growth in desire to expand on the horizon for the band however. I found myself tapping my foot to tracks like She lost a gun simply because the chorus was big, bright, and fun. Pathos And Ethos(first album) was catchy too, just not as all around as catchy as this album. Only song you will catch me humming from Pathos is the track called Maybe if it's a good day. Much of The Sun was elevated into more catchier tracks that will have listeners remembering them for days going forward.

  Brian The Sun's frontman is classified as on of the frontman of a band that can actually sing. I believe if I met him and asked him to sing for me without any music, he could do it. The Japanese music scene has a lot of rock band frontmen that can sing. His voice is a bit high. Not an annoying screechy kind of high. Instead its the high tenor quality that's pleasing to the ears.

  These boys are well on their way. I have a feeling that they will get their opening and become more popular in Japan. Let's hope they get a top ten spot on the Oricon Chart at least once. That would be cool.