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The Japenese Popstars – Song For Lisa

• 9th Feb 2011

The Japanese Popstars release their new single 'Song For Lisa' on Positiva/Virgin on 4 April 2011.

The Japanese Popstars are ravenous. Since they first tasted success in 2006 with their first two releases on a small indie dance label, their career has been one smooth, upward curve. But now that line is about to take a sharp rise vertically. Three lads from Northern Ireland who have spent the last two years racking up the air miles as they’ve taken their coruscating live show to all four corners of the globe… and still found time to make the record of their lives with their second album, 'Controlling Your Allegiance'.

Their new single, 'Song For Lisa', is a glacial house anthem that features Mercury Prize-nominated Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan.

The Japanese Popstars – Gary Curran, Declan ‘Decky Hedrock’ McLaughlin and Gareth Donoghue – may have been together for just four years, but they’ve carved out a reputation to rival the biggest names in dance music as a must-see live act and purveyor of raucous, foot-stomping, energetic electronic dance music. In the two years since their debut album 'We Just Are' dropped on Gung-Ho!, they’ve gone on long tours of the States, played in Australia, across Europe and, of course Japan – a place that’s especially taken them to their hearts. No surprises there, then.

The forthcoming album includes their previous singles 'Let Go', a storming, tumultuous, twisted, electro barrage featuring Chicago house legend Green Velvet, plus 'Destroy' with Jon Spencer 's idiosyncratic and eerily compelling vocal. The album also includes a number of other exiting guests including Robert Smith (The Cure), Tom Smith (The Editors) and Morgan Kibby (M83) and James Vincent McMorrow.

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