Home Town Boy

[Machine Translation] This album is composed with a simpler and straighter view of the world of lyrics than the conventional night strike, which makes the listeners feel as if they are being gripped by the music. Night Strike sings the stories of people living in a world that has changed. They never sing about imaginary things, but sing about reality in realistic words. There is no other group like them. Newcomer Makiko's chorus and vocals are featured throughout the album, and they enhance the greatness of the melodies of the Yoru Sto. The band is based on roots music, but shows a wide variety of musicality in each song, and at the same time, it is a one-and-only band that shows its originality, the "Yoru Sto section", and a new milestone was born. The songs of the Yoru Sto are very touching in these times. 1 "Soba o Soba de Ite" is the ultimate love song with its simple and straightforward cry of love, 3 "Teresa" is a true soul ballad, 5 "Aurain" is a sad and fragile worldview that cannot be listened to without tears, and 6 "I'll Never Leave You" is the most beautiful song of the album. No song is a throwaway. Above all, the message of the 11th track, "Hometown Boy," and the story that could only be told in a single song, as if it were a movie, are of unbelievably high quality. There is no one who does not feel something in the world of this story about a man working at a power plant and his family life. It is such a great song.

今作は従来の夜ストよりもシンプルかつストレートな歌詞の世界観で構成されており、それが聴いている者の心をグッと鷲掴みにされるような感覚を覚える。変わってしまった世界に生きる人々の物語を夜ストは歌う。絵空事は決して歌わず、リアルな言葉で現実を歌う。そんな連中は夜ストしかいない。新加入のマキ子のコーラス及びボーカルも随所にフィーチャーされ、夜ストのメロディの素晴らしさをかなり引き立てている。ルーツミュージックをベースにしながら、楽曲によって多彩な音楽性をみせ、なおかつこれぞ「夜スト節」というオリジナリティを見せる正しくワン&オンリーなバンド、夜ストの新たなる金字塔が生まれた。こんな時代だからこそ、夜ストの歌はグッと来る。1「そばにいて」は究極のラヴソングと言えるシンプルかつストレートな愛の叫びが秀逸。3「テレサ」は正に珠玉のソウルバラード、5「オーレイン」の切なくも儚い世界観は涙無しには聴けない。どの曲も全て捨て曲無し。そして何よりも11曲目「ホームタウンボーイ」のメッセージ性と夜ストならではの1本の映画を1曲に封じ込めたようなストーリー性はトンデモないクオリティの高さであります。発電所で仕事する男と家庭の生活を物語風に描く世界観に何も感じない人は誰もいないであろう。それほどの名曲であります。