New album "honeycreeper" announced!

A short update today, but a big one for PUFFY fans. Their official site has just been refreshed with a new main image and details on their new album. Here they are, with translated text following the Japanese:

アルバムのリリースが決定いたしました！

ニューアルバム「honeycreeper」
2007年9月26日発売
KSCL 1174 / ¥3,059(tax incl.)

<収録曲>

1.オリエンタル・ダイヤモンド　作詞 : 井上陽水　作曲　奥田民生　
2.Ain’t Gonna Cut It　作詞・作曲　Butch Walker/Robert Schwartzman
3.君とオートバイ　作詞・作曲　チバユウスケ
4.くちびるモーション　作詞・作曲　吉井和哉
5.はやいクルマ　作詞・作曲　真島昌利
6.サヨナラサマー　作詞・作曲　山中さわお
7.boom boom beat　作詞 PUFFY 作曲　Anders Hellgren & David Myhr
8.妖怪PUFFY　作詞：宮藤官九郎　作曲：富澤タク
9.Closet Full Of Love　作詞・作曲　Butch Walker/Kara DioGuardi
10.はさんじゃうぜ　作詞作曲 : 真島昌利
11.complaint　作詞 PUFFY 作曲　山中さわお
12.お江戸流れ星IV　作詞　ピエール瀧　作曲　Anders Hellgren & David Myhr
13.アイランド 作詞・作曲 チバユウスケ

Translated as best as I can:

Announcing the album's release!


New album "honeycreeper"
On sale 9/26/2007
KSCL 1174 / ¥3,059(tax incl.)

Track listing:

1. Oriental Diamond - Lyrics and Music: Yosui Inoue/Tamio Okuda
2. Ain’t Gonna Cut It - Lyrics and Music: Butch Walker/Robert Schwartzman
3. Kimi to O-tobai (You and the Motorcycle) - Lyrics and Music: Chiba Yusuke
4. Kuchibiru Motion (Lip Motion?) - Lyrics and Music: Yoshii Kazuya
5. Hayai Kurima (Fast Car) - Lyrics and Music: Mashima Masatoshi
6. Sayonara Summer - Lyrics and Music: Yamanaka Sawao
7. boom boom beat - Lyrics: PUFFY Music: Anders Hellgren & David Myhr
8. Ghost PUFFY - Lyrics: Kudou Kankurou Music: Taku Tomizawa
9. Closet Full Of Love - Lyrics and Music: Butch Walker/Kara DioGuardi
10. Hasanjiyauze (????) - Lyrics and Music : Mashima Masatoshi
11. complaint - Lyrics: PUFFY Music: Yamanaka Sawao
12. Ohedo Nagareboshi IV (Edo Shooting Star) - Lyrics: Pierre Taki　Music: Anders Hellgren & David Myhr
13. Island - Lyrics and Music: Chiba Yusuke

UPDATE: fixed a few of the names. They should be pretty much correct now.

Not much more to say at this point, but it seems like they're taking a cue from Splurge and mixing up the songwriting duties. That album's one of their best; hopefully lightning will strike twice. Interesting that Butch Walker makes a return, though most of the remaining songwriters are new (to PUFFY). I'm most excited to hear the pillows' frontman Yamanaka Sawao's songs - they're a great band that any fan of the rock-infused parody anime FLCL would know well. Rest assured you will see a full review soon after I get my grubby little hands on the new CD!

CD Japan - my recommended merchant for all Japan imports - now has it up for pre-order.

If you're wondering - because I know it's not a very common word - this is a honeycreeper:


Oh, by the way, my wife and I were at The Gap at a mall on Long Island yesterday (yeah, we've gone all suburban), and I was a little surprised to see this:

Part of a new international marketing campaign, but still, these days "international" usually means "everywhere but the United States". Nice to see them getting some non-cartoon related exposure here, even if it's a bit anonymous. This image also appears on the Japanese Gap web site (wait for it!), but not the much less visually compelling US site.