Tower Recommen January lineup announced! Hedigan’s Roomies 2 groups selected!


Tower Records has decided on the Tower Records push items for January 2025.

With the motto “Let’s create breakout items right from the store shelves!”, Tower Records buyers from all over the country, regardless of Western, Japanese, or genre, trust only their ears and intuition to discover artists who have yet to become a hot topic in the public eye. “Tower Recommend” is a famous project that will be quickly picked up and rolled out at all stores with a big push.

This project, which started in 2006, is a highly promoted project in which items are decided every month through serious presentations and voting by buyers, and are rolled out to all stores.

◆Tower Recommendation Lineup for January 2025*In alphabetical order

・Hedigan’s

“Chance”

Released on Wednesday, January 15th

・Roomies

“ECHO”

Released on Wednesday, January 8th

*Please refer to the next page for details of the work.

Tower Records Online “Tower Records” URL

https://tower.jp/site/series/tower-recomen

■January Tower Recommendations/Product Details *Japanese alphabetical order

Artist Hedigan’s

Title Chance

Release date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Price: 3,950 yen (tax included)

Label FCLS

*The photo is an artist photo.

Work introduction

Composed of 5 members: Yosuke Kasai “YONCE” (vo, g), Masaharu Kurita (g), Yusuke Kurita (key), Takuma Motomura (b), and Gaku Ouchi (ds). They held irregular live performances in parallel with their respective band activities, but they started in earnest in 2023 and released their first single “LOVE (XL)” in November of the same year. The 2nd single “Logic is Lonely” will be released in January 2024. In February of the same year, he released his first EP “2000JPY” on CD. This is the 1st album in which all 10 songs will be released on CD for the first time. In addition, the CD is limited to a full recording of the live sound source from 2023’s “EPOCHS ~Music & Art Collective~”, which was the band’s first live performance.

Comments from Tower Recommendators

Recommended by: Shinjuku store/Shimizu

The long-awaited 1st album from Suchmos’ new band featuring YONCE. Now that Suchmos is restarting, this is a work that I would like to propose again.

②Artist Roomies

Title ECHO

Release date: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Price: 2,750 yen (tax included)

Label P-VINE

Work introduction

A 4-piece neo-soul band formed in 2019 led by Sosuke Oikawa (Syn). The second work is the first CD release. It opens refreshingly with the light prologue-like number “When We’ll Be Together,” followed by the most straight-forward pop tune in the album, “Like This.” “Before”, “Hypnotized” is a mesmerizing medium song with a title similar to Maze Meets MJ, and the mellow Teddy Pendergrass + Hall & Oates + alpha song whose 7-inch single released in March was sold out. A retake of “Sweet Dreams”, Kevin’s appealing singing voice touches the heart, and the ballad “Close To Being In” is reminiscent of D’Angelo. Love”, the groovy “Stay As You Are” with a 70’s to 80’s soul feel, and the danceable title track “ECHO”, which is the closer and lead single.A total of 9 songs that are attractive with well-thought-out arrangements and skillful performances. .

Comments from Tower Recommendators

Recommended by: Shibuya store/Nagaoka/Nagoya Kintetsu Passe store/Hayakawa/Akashi store/Ito/Sapporo Parco store/Nakanishi/Namba Parks store/Yasuda

A pleasant music experience with soulful and sweet singing voices and sounds packed with the essence of soul, AOR, city pop, and more!

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