Ichiichi Shiawase

[Machine Translation] This is the first new album in about 10 months since their last album "Patchwork". This mini album is a collection of "songs of unrequited love", the essence of "clumsy love experts", including "Endless Repeat", a refreshing up-tune that was first performed at the Valentine's Day show in February and received a great response, "Hero and Clown", a heartbreaking ballad about an unreachable flower of high rank that makes one's chest burn, "Here I Love You" with its pop sound, and "Sign is LOVE IS OLL", which is sung in their hearts even if people laugh at them, as well as "I Love You", which is sung in their lives. The signature is LOVE IS OLL, the POP sounding "Koko ni aru I LOVE YOU", the popular ballad "Yunagi", which has been sung at live shows, and "Gilrfriend", which Shimoji praises as the number one song of n&I (recorded on the indie disc (Akaiite)), are all newly arranged with live strings. Another song from the indie version (When You Wish Upon a Star), "Seishun", has been re-recorded as a disco POP dance tune arranged by Yuki Mitokatsu.

前作「パッチワーク」から、約10ヶ月振りの新作。 「不器用な恋愛の達人」の真骨頂「片思いの歌」ばかりを集めたミニアルバム。2月のバレンタインライヴで初披露し大好評だった爽やかアップチューン『エンドレスリピート』、手の届かない高嶺の花に胸を焦がす切ないバラード『英雄と道化師』、人に笑われようとも胸に掲げるサインはLOVE IS OLL、POPなサウンドの『ここにあるI LOVE YOU』、ライヴで唄われ続けてきた無償の愛を問う大人気のバラード『夕凪』、そして下地がn&Iの楽曲の中でナンバーワン楽曲と絶賛する『Gilrfriend』(インディーズ盤【アカイイト】収録)を生のストリングスを加えアレンジを新たに再収録、そしてもう1曲インディーズ盤【星に願いを】の中から『青春』がミトカツユキ氏のアレンジで、ディスコPOPダンスチューンとして大変身し再収録。