Location: Tokyo
Country: Japan
Genre: Noise rock
Full length: I'm Hungry!!
Format: Vinyl, double vinyl versions bundle, splatter deluxe vinyl, coloured vinyl edition, digifile CD, digital album
Label: Overdrive Records
Release date: September 26, 2025
As demonstrated further on Moja’s "I'm Hungry!!", Japanese bands have consistently had a unique method of storytelling through their musicianship, eliciting profound emotions. From EZO to Sigh, from traditional heavy metal to avant-garde black metal, a purist mentality is embedded in every note, progression, and verse, allowing its authenticity and committed emotion to resonate.
As a drum and bass group that incorporates elements reminiscent of punk, techno, and industrial music, Moja exemplifies this by converting rhythm and distortion into an engaging yet abrasive experience. The greater the length of the songs, the more peculiar and varied they come across; however, each song contains a sufficient amount of peculiarity and variety to share.
Their DIY philosophy has allowed them to maintain complete creative autonomy over their work, free from limitations of time, distilled to its essence, crafted to fully represent the energy they project on stage. The music here is raw, fundamental, and unrefined, lacking adornments that could diminish the impact like gentle, romantic lyrics written to soothe the listener. Otherwise, it would fail to ignite your blood and make your mind feel as though it’s melting within your skull.
Again, the outcome is a multitude of unmitigated emotions that can only be fully comprehended by those who composed and performed these songs. Bound by a punk edge and the comedic flair of certain grindcore and goregrind bands, the tracks on this album navigate through the most unusual genre shifts, depending on what proves to be most impactful at any particular moment.
The tracks may exhibit resemblances to punk and grunge, followed by punk and industrial, then punk and R&B, and finally progressions that are uniquely strange in and of themselves. Among the most unconventional are songs like "Alien" which mixes techno, industrial and electronica, "Making Noise" which includes drum solos at inopportune moments, and "Oh My God!!" which at one point evoke Marilyn Manson and then transition into a form of jazz fusion in the next.
The bio of "I'm Hungry!!" doesn’t provide extensive information about conceptual themes However, in punk fashion (MDC, old Napalm Death), some of them suggest a connection to consumerism and the fast food industry, as well as the public's relentless desire for instant gratification. I wish I had more information to work with, as all the lyrics sound delivered in a fun and entertaining manner, contrasting with the rough edged production and the harsher sounding songwriting.
"I'm Hungry!!" is both self-recorded and self-produced as well as independently written and composed. Therefore, fans of their music can be confident it represents a vision entirely their own. –Dave Wolff
Lineup:
Haru: Bass, vocals
Masumi: Drums
Track list:
1. Excuse Me
2. Food
3. No Thank You
4. Oh My God!!
5. Alien
6. Making Noise
7. Zero
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