New Digital Single from I Don’t Like Mondays.

Following their theme song for the current season of the popular anime series "ONE PIECE", rock band I Don’t Like Mondays. released a new digital single titled Sora no Aosa ni Miserarete on March 7th. A lyric video was also published on YouTube.

Sora no Aosa ni Miserarete is described as a "pure coming-of-age love song that is perfectly suited to the onset of spring". It is said to "poetically spotlight an innocent young man’s pure heart among the arrival of spring and the budding seeds of love". A chanted choral section in the middle also captures the band’s hope that the day will come soon when the live music industry recovers and they can sing together with all of their fans again.

Links to download and stream Sora no Aosa ni Miserarete on various online music platforms are available here.

Vocalist YU commented:

“I wanted to write a love song that traces the innocent and pure feelings of youth, which I try not to forget even as an adult, and I chose to express this tale of boyhood against a backdrop of spring, the season of new beginnings. I truly cannot wait for the day when we can sing this song live together with everyone.”

Guitarist CHOJI commented:

“I aimed to play this song with a combination of strength and delicacy, like the wind. This is our first song in a while to have a guitar solo. In order to avoid the solo becoming too overbearing, I played an arpeggio while creating a tone that felt just right, made by combining a chorus effect together with an effect pedal called a POG. The guitar line is even deeper than on our last song, PAINT, and I hope you will try to recreate it yourself. The chorus has a difficult melody line, too, but I hope you’ll sound cool when you sing along.”

Bassist KENJI commented:

“With all the restrictions at live music venues these past two years or so, the overwhelming amount of extra time we have all spent at home, and even the changes in the way we listen to music now, I wanted to create songs that will connect with your heart even more deeply when you listen to them alone. Our new song Sora no Aosa ni Miserarete is about our heartfelt wish that we can all join together soon for a live experience, sing together and become one. I hope that the future will bring an even better environment where we can enjoy the wonderful sensation of singing together.”

Drummer SHUKI commented:

“In 2022, which we began with the release of PAINT, we are paying extra special attention to creating music with a band sound, a live sound, with the hope that the live music scene can recover even more than last year. The song includes a section that everyone can sing along with, and we tried to find a sound that carries a sense of speed and clarity without sounding too fresh; and as a result, we ended up sprinkling YU’s vocal part with some digital processing. It’s a song packed with contradictory elements, such as analog and digital sounds, live instruments and sequencers, innocence and dirt, quietness and explosion, and so on. I hope you will listen to it over and over, and enjoy the playful musical approach.”

The lyric video for Sora no Aosa ni Miserarete can be viewed below.


In addition, last month, I Don’t Like Mondays. released a new T-shirt in collaboration with ®Label, a sustainable apparel line from Japanese clothing brand BYWEAR. BYWEAR is a direct-to-consumer street brand that aims to "develop the highest quality products at realistic prices and quantities while utilizing Japan-made craftsmanship and manufacturing, with a strong stance against mass production and mass consumption".

The collaboration with ®Label came about after I Don’t Like Mondays. released their 2021 album Black Humor, which includes the track Millennials ~just I thought~. ®Label were particularly impressed by the song's lyrics themed around environmental issues, a topic that is closely linked with the clothing label’s own values, and they contacted I Don’t Like Mondays. The collaboration T-shirt is made from environmentally friendly materials and features the phrase “Start with Knowing”, based on YU’s message of “To save the Earth, let’s start with awareness!”.