Night Fishing (album)

Night Fishing
A drawing of a white ferris wheel
Studio album by Sakanaction
Released January 23, 2008
(see release history)
Recorded 2007
Genre pop, dance, electronica, post-rock
Length 49:51
Language Japanese
Label BabeStar Label
Producer Sakanaction
Sakanaction chronology

Go to the Future
(2007)		 Night Fishing
(2008)		 'Night Fishing Is Good' Tour 2008 in Sapporo
(2008)
Singles from Night Fishing
  1. "Word"
    Released: December 5, 2007
  2. "Sample"
    Released: December 5, 2007
  3. "Night Fishing Is Good"
    Released: December 26, 2007

Night Fishing (stylized as NIGHT FISHING) is the second studio album by Japanese band Sakanaction. It was released on January 23, 2008 through Victor Entertainment's BabeStar Label.[1] The album was the band's second and final album to be recorded in their native Hokkaido. It primarily featured music written by vocalist Ichiro Yamaguchi since the release of their debut album Go to the Future (2007), and was their first album to be purposely conceived of as an album.

The album was preceded by the digital singles "Word", "Sample" and "Night Fishing Is Good" in December 2007. Out of these, "Sample" was chosen as the main promotional track for the album, receiving high radio play in Hokkaido. Go to the Future was more commercially successful than Go to the Future, reaching number 53 on the Oricon singles chart. Critically, the band was praised for their new direction on Night Fishing, with critics praising the album's word-play, melodies and arrangements.

In 2009, the album was made available globally as a digital download, alongside the band's debut and third albums Go to the Future (2007) and Shin-shiro (2009). In 2015, the album was reissued on CD, LP record and lossless digital formats.

Background and development

Sakanaction was first formed in 2005 in Sapporo, Hokkaido. The band gained notoriety in Hokkaido after winning the audition to perform as a newcomer artist at the Rising Sun Rock Festival in Otaru in August 2006, and after demos of their songs "Mikazuki Sunset" and "Shiranami Top Water" performed well on College Radio Japan Sapporo.[2] The band were signed to major label Victor Entertainment, and released their debut album Go to the Future on May 7, 2007, through Victor's BabeStar Label. The group performed a short tour of Japan to promote the album's release, performing concerts in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya from May 11 to May 13, and held a solo-billed live at Bessie Hall in Sapporo on May 27.[3] Many of the songs that were later included on Night Fishing were performed at the Sapporo concert, including "Teenage" and "Amsfish".[4][5]

Since their debut, the band was based in Sapporo, and recorded their albums there.[6][7] This would become their last Hokkaido-based release, after the group moved to Tokyo in mid 2008.[8]

Writing and production

Album creation

Due to the response to the band's debut album Go to the Future, Sakanaction's A&R team pushed them to quickly follow this up with a second album.[9] Sakanaction felt extremely pressured while creating the album, especially by Sakanaction's Victor Entertainment musical director.[10][9] The song "Word" was inspired by this pressure, and in place of the lyric yoru ga bokura o tameshiteru na (夜が僕らを試してるな, "the night is testing us") found on the final cut, in the original Yamaguchi had used the lyric kimi ga bokura o tameshiteru na (君が僕らを試してるな, "you are testing us"), in reference to their director and Victor.[11]

The majority of the songs present on the album were written specifically for it. The band members felt like Night Fishing was their first release that they had made together as a five-member band, as opposed to Go to the Future, which Yamaguchi described as feeling like a "business card" due to the inclusion of mostly old material.[12][13] The material for the album was created based on the response and criticism for their debut album, and the members realization that they should not be frightened to make bold changes.[13][14] However, several songs were already written beforehand: "Sample" was originally a song released by Yamaguchi's high school band Dutchman 2002, and "Amsfish" was a song written during Sakanaction's early days in 2005 that did not make the album cut of Go to the Future, because Yamaguchi felt that the song did not fit well on their debut release.[15][4] The band attempted to make a more commercial sound compared to Go to the Future, and attempted to strike a balance between including underground, minimal electronic music and "high entertainment" popular music.[13] The band did not want to remove the feeling of fun from their music, so added progressive rock aspects as well as sudden choral singing, and further expanded their sound by incorporating elements of ambient and folk music.[14][10] After performing their first Japanese tour in 2008, Sakanaction put more consideration into chosing arrangements that would work better at live concerts.[9]

The album was created at a point where each of the band members wanted to put more of their own personalities into the music of Sakanaction, which led to Night Fishing becoming their most fought-over album.[12][9] Sakanaction also had difficulty between themselves and their record label over deciding which song should have been the leading song. The label had chosen "Sample", however there was a lot of opposition to this from Yamaguchi, who preferred "Night Fishing Is Good".[9] When the band unveiled their song to their director at Studio Milk, he did not react very well to the song, and the label chose not to promote this song due to its six-minute length.[16][9] During this time, Yamaguchi had begun to realize the power of music videos after the rise in popularity of video-sharing websites such as YouTube, so decided to make his own low-budget video for the song; describing "Night Fishing Is Good" as the underground leading song for the album.[17][9]

Lyrically, Yamaguchi worked around a "night" theme, and was inspired by creating film-like imagery for each song.[13] Yamaguchi wanted to compile lyrics featuring introspective feelings of worry and sadness that people primarily felt at night.[14] Yamaguchi was further inspired to write more autobiographically, creating a documentary-like non-fiction work.[12] He was inspired to create lyrics closer to the style of haiku than standard pop lyricisim, in order to express many things with as few phrases as possible.[14]

The album was entirely recorded at Discovery Studio in the Maruyama Nishi-machi area (pictured) of Sapporo, Hokkaido.

Demo recording sessions for Night Fishing began several days before the release of the band's debut album Go to the Future in May 2007.[18][19] The band members proposed the album concepts officially to Victor Entertainment staff in June 2007.[20] The album's official studio recording sessions began in September 2007 and concluded in October, and were entirely undertaken at Discovery Studio in the Maruyama Nishi-machi area of Chūō-ku, Sapporo.[21][22][23] After the album sessions had finished, however, the band immediately kept on recording for their future projects.[24] The album's track order was not considered until the very final, mastering stages of the album.[25] Yamaguchi did much of the album's final mixing himself personally.[26]

Several plans for the album did not come into being. Originally the band had planned for "Ame wa Kimagure" to be the leading song on the album, but after producing the song, Yamaguchi felt that the song's arrangement was too stylish and not easily accessible.[25] The band had wanted to shoot a video for "Atarashii Sekai" on location in Kyoto, however they had to abandon plans for this.[6]

Song inspiration and production

The arrangement for the song "Night Fishing Is Good" was inspired by English rock band Queen.

Despite "Word" being inspired by the pressure by the band's musical director, it was strongly influenced by the album's night theme. Yamaguchi created the image of walking next to a river with a girl as the basis for the song, and wanted to create a song that would make a person cry if they heard it on a winter's night.[6][11] Initially he struggled to actualize this, but managed to become inspired after creating the lyric yoru ga bokura o tameshiteru na.[6] When the song was first performed in concert, it originally was given the temporary title "Techno Word" (テクノワード Tekuno Wādo), and was written as a song to give to former Judy and Mary vocalist Yuki, however plans did not come to fruition.[27][28]

The song "Sample" had many different arrangements initially. As they had not intended for the song to becoming the leading promotional track, they had decided to use an arrangement with strong synthesizer sounds, instead of a more easy to understand, commercial sound.[29] Originally Ymaguchi had wanted to make the song faster, but after finding that speeding up the song distorted the song's melody and lyrical impression settled on 126BPM.[29]

For the song "Night Fishing Is Good", Yamaguchi wanted to create a song that mimicked the emotions of fishing: initially deep in meditative thought that is suddenly broken when a fish gets hooked, and finally experiencing joy at catching the fish.[6][13] Guitarist Motoharu Iwadera was the member who spent the most time contributing to the production of the song, and the band tried to have as much fun as possible with the arrangement.[6][10] Yamaguchi quickly wrote the song after reading a review in Musica of Clammbon's album Musical (2007). He had wanted to make a song inspired by musicals and classical music, however felt that Clammbon might have beaten him to the punch.[17] "Night Fishing Is Good" was one of several Sakanaction songs where he created the music and lyrics simultaneously; it was only later that part of the song's title was chosen to become the album's title.[6][25] The other members of Sakanaction were hesitant about the song first, after hearing how complex it was when Yamaguchi performed it solo on guitar during studio demo sessions, and suggested that they split it into two songs.[17] Part way through the song's recording, Yamaguchi was suddenly inspired to make the song similar to music of English rock band Queen, which pianist Okazaki responded well to. Iwadera added Queen-style guitar riffs to the song, and the group decided to add chorus work in the style of Queen.[17]

Despite the album's track order not being decided until the very end, Yamaguchi had from the start thought that "Ame wa Kimagure", "Malaysia 32" and "Uneri" should be in that order.[25] After plans for "Ame wa Kimagure" to become the leading song were scrapped, Yamaguchi decided to elaborate on the "oriental" feel of the song.[25] "Malaysia 32" is the band's first instrumental song, and was based on a synthesizer riff made by Iwadera which was then completed with ideas from everyone in the band.[6][30] The song was called "Malaysia" because of how at one point they added a vocal melody that sounded like the name of the city Kuala Lumpur.[30] The number 32 in the title is a reference to the fact that the song is based on a synthesizer loop of 32 bars.[6] Originally "Uneri" had been envisioned as a rock song, but the band decided against this after creating "Night Fishing Is Good". The band's musical director suggested that they make the song acoustically instead, which led to the final studio arrangement of "Uneri".[26]

Promotion and release

A mountain next to a lake.
A river.
Two of the music videos from Night Fishing were shot on location in Japan. "Sample" was shot in Shizuoka Prefecture close to Mount Fuji, and "Night Fishing Is Good" at the Arata River in Gifu.

The album was first announced on November 12, 2007.[31] In December, Sakanaction traveled to the Tokyo area to promote the album, including a performance at the Countdown Japan 07/08 new year's music festival.[32][33]

On December 5, the songs "Word" and "Sample" were released as a two-track single to iTunes.[34] On December 26, the song "Night Fishing Is Good" was similarly released as a stand-alone digital download to promote the album.[35] "Sample" was chosen as the album's leading promotional track, which started being played by radio stations in Hokkaido in early January.[36][37] "Word" began to receive minor airplay in mid January, and "Sample" was put into heavy rotation on radio stations such as Hokkaido's FM North Wave in early February.[38]

Three songs on the album were promoted with music videos. The music video for "Sample" was recorded on December 20, at a lake close to Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, and was directed by Kanji Suto.[39][40] "Sample" was heavily promoted on music video channel Space Shower in January 2008.[41] A video for "Word" by director Hiroshi Kondo was recorded in a studio in Tokyo on December 25.[42][43] "Night Fishing Is Good" was recorded in a single day during the new year period in 2008 at the Arata River in Gifu, in two takes, by "Mikazuki Sunset" director Yoshihiro Mori.[44][45] It was released after the album was available in stores, on February 4.[41]

In mid-January, a special website for Night Fishing was made accessible, featuring sound samples and song commentary by Ichiro Yamaguchi, and also opened their official MySpace profile.[33][41] Sakanaction were featured on the February 26 episode of Fuji Television's Factory, where they performed a four song set, featuring "Sample" as well as songs from Go to the Future.[46][47] Two songs from the album were used as credits theme songs for programs in Japan. "Sample" was used by the Chiba Television Broadcasting program Music-03 as their ending theme song, as well as by the Mainichi Broadcasting System program Music Edge + Osaka Style for their opening. "Word" was used as the ending theme song for the NHK FM radio program Music Square.[48][49] Special features on Sakanaction were published in the magazines Pia, Musica, Barfout!, Bass Magazine and Rockin' On Japan.[49]

In March 2008, the band held a Japan-wide tour to promote the album, 2nd Album 2008 "Night Fishing Is Good". The tour began in Nagasaki on March 1, and finished in Osaka on March 29.[35] In 2015 the album was reissued, initially on vinyl record and a CD re-release in March, followed by a lossless digital release. Originally the band had planned on releasing a new studio album then, however could not due to bassist Kusakari's pregnancy.[27]

Reception

Critical reception

Music journalist Takehiko Hosaka gave a very positive review of the album, noting the band's new and wider direction, and felt it was at the forefront of modern pop music. He felt that Night Fishing had a Don Quixote-like strong volition that was easy to become obsessed about.[50] CDJournal reviewer Mori listed it as his third favorite release of the year, praising the word-play, melodies and arrangements on Night Fishing.[51] Yuji Tanaka of CDJournal praised the album's addition of "opera-like choral work" on the album, noting it as the biggest change compared to Go to the Future.[52]

Commercial reception

In its debut week, Night Fishing was the number 53 most sold album in Japan, according to the Japanese music chart Oricon, selling 3,500 copies.[53] This was more than double the result of the band's debut album Go to the Future, which had sold 1,500 copies and reached number 105.[53] It continued to chart in the top 300 albums for an additional four weeks, selling an additional 3,600 copies.[53] During the release of the band's single "Aruku Around" in January 2010, the album re-charted for a single week, bringing the total tracked number of copies sold to 7,600: 2,400 more than Go to the Future.[53] In 2015 the album was reissued, selling an additional 1,500 copies.[53] In tracking regional sales, CDJournal noted the album had mid-level charting success in Tokyo and charted highly in Sapporo, however under-performed in Hokkaido position-wise compared to Go to the Future.[48][54] Much like Go to the Future, the album did not see particularly strong sales in the regional centers of Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka.[54]

Radio data compiler Plantech tracked the album's leading track "Sample" as being the song with the sixth highest airplay in Hokkaido between January 20 and 27, despite not having any noticeable airplay success nationally.[55] "Sample" became the fifth post successful song in Sapporo in early February, according to the Sapporo Hot 100 sales and airplay chart.[38] A week beforehand, "Word" received its greatest airplay, however only managed to reach number 41 on the same chart.[56]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Ichiro Yamaguchi. 

No. TitleMusic Length
1. "Word" (ワード Wādo)Yamaguchi 4:32
2. "Sample" (サンプル Sanpuru)Yamaguchi 4:41
3. "Night Fishing Is Good" (ナイトフィッシングイズグッド Naito Fisshingu Izu Guddo)Yamaguchi 6:18
4. "Ame wa Kimagure" (雨は気まぐれ, "The Rain Is Whimsical")Yamaguchi 3:57
5. "Malaysia 32" (マレーシア32 Marēshia Sātitsū)Sakanaction 5:10
6. "Uneri" (うねり, "Swirling")Yamaguchi 4:46
7. "Teenage" (ティーンエイジ Tīneiji)Yamaguchi 5:27
8. "Aishū Train" (哀愁トレイン, "Sorrow Train")Yamaguchi 3:33
9. "Atarashii Sekai" (新しい世界, "New World")Yamaguchi 4:49
10. "Amsfish" (アムスフィッシュ Amusufisshu)Yamaguchi 6:28
Total length:
 49:51

Personnel

Personnel details were sourced from Night Fishing's liner notes booklet.[23]

Sakanaction

  • All members – arrangement, production, songwriting (#5)
  • Keiichi Ejima – drums
  • Motoharu Iwadera – guitar
  • Ami Kusakari – bass guitar
  • Emi Okazaki – keyboards
  • Ichiro Yamaguchi – vocals, guitar, songwriting (#1-4, #6-10)

Personnel and imagery

  • Brown Post – mixing, recording
  • Hatos – artwork
  • Kentaro Ishikawa – A&R
  • Daisuke Ishizaka – photography
  • Ted Jensen – mastering (2015 reissued edition)
  • Kamikene – artwork direction, design
  • Kotaro Kojima – mastering
  • Yasumura Kubota – executive producer (BabeStar)
  • Yujiro Mitsugi – manager
  • Natural Bicycle – clothing cooperation
  • Tatsuya Nomura – executive producer (Hip Land Music Corporation)
  • Normalization – artwork
  • Takeshi Takagaki – supervisor (BabeStar)
  • Wataru Woka – A&R

Charts

Charts (2008) Peak
position
Japan Oricon weekly albums[57] 53
Charts (2015) Peak
position
Japan Oricon weekly albums[53] 62

Sales

Chart Amount
Oricon physical sales[53] 9,000

Release history

Region Date Format Distributing Label Catalogue codes
Japan January 23, 2008[1] CD, digital download BabeStar Label VICB-60029
Taiwan April 10, 2009[58] CD Rock Records GUT2261
South Korea April 13, 2009[59] digital download Neowiz Internet
Worldwide July 15, 2009[60] digital download Victor Entertainment
Japan March 18, 2015[61] lossless digital download
March 25, 2015[62] CD, LP record VICL-64344, VIJL-60146-7

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