WE EXPECT THIS ITEM TO SHIP ON OR BEFORE THE NOVEMBER 3RD RELEASE DATE.

Hollow Me, Yura Yura Teikoku's tenth studio album, abandons the ecstatic, blown-out approach of their earlier work for a far more subdued and streamlined palette of sounds. The songs were composed to impart a general feeling of emptiness or "hollowness." Sakamoto's fierce guitar work is legendary in Japan, yet the album shockingly contains not a single guitar solo. The band set about by their own dogmatic set of rules and stuck close to them. Influences come at you in strange disguises, templates taken from everyone from T-Rex to ESG to Can to 10CC. All of this comes together without seeming gratuitous or forced, no small feat indeed. And what we are left with is one of the most cohesive new rock LP’s in any language.

Like all previous Yura Yura Teikoku releases, Hollow Me and the accompanying Beautiful EP were masterfully recorded at Nakamura Soichiro's (of Japanese psych legends White Heaven) Peace Studio, and produced by You Ishihara (also ex-White Heaven).

DFA is honored to introduce this instant classic to fresh ears, and have a strong feeling that, even if you don't speak Japanese, you'll be singing along somehow after a few listens.