Two more CDs arrived for the collection the other day: toe’s For Long Tomorrow and CQ’s Communication, Cultural, Curiosity Quotient (or as I like to call it: you know, the other one). Really happy to finally have both in my collection, two amazing albums.
This CQ album in particular is what really got me into shoegaze and alternative rock in general. The first track Disco Crimson is such a gateway drug. At the time the rest of the album was too heavy for me (closer to noise rock than shoegaze). It took about a year of listening to other adjacent sounds before returning, and here we are.
For anyone unfamiliar, CQ featured three members of Tokyo Shoegazer: Hiroshi Sasabuchi, Kiyomi Watanabe, and Yoshitaka Sugahara, alongside Jun Shibuya from honeydip. So if you’re a fan of either band, I’d seriously recommend checking out their work.
I'd recommend sticking to the original 2016 version of CCCQ and the 2024 remaster of WWWE. I specifically sought out those versions for my collection because I think they sound the best. For these albums in particular, the differences in sound are pretty significant.
Mainly picked this up to have the album in my collection, had no idea how cool the physical CD itself actually was. The reflective disc with the matte black square and minimal text in the middle is such a cool look.
Two great additions to the collection!