Otoboke Beaver: Tiny Desk Concert
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Published 2024-05-10
Mannie Fresh bum rushed the crowd and mugged for the camera. Soul Glo's Pierce Jordan stunted on office furniture. Moses Sumney played our window-side piano. Some moments were staged and others spontaneous, but sometimes an artist just needs to "break the frame" of Tiny Desk. Case in point: Our puny shelves and cluttered junk could not contain Otoboke Beaver's Yoyoyoshie, who literally lept out from behind the Desk, ran to the wide shot and shred a noisy guitar solo most triumphantly.
Kyoto, Japan's Otoboke Beaver came into the NPR Music office with string lights color coordinated to the members' floral print dresses, an edamame hair clip for our wall and a giant, inflatable beaver. In two-minute bursts of fast, furious and outrageously fun punk rock, the band's music is a gleeful exercise in absurdist evisceration — of Japanese societal norms, gender roles, annoying trolls and bad boyfriends. Every song smirks as it explodes. At the Tiny Desk, Otoboke Beaver speeds and screams through its catalog — Itekoma Hits, Super Champon and its singles compilation Okoshiyasu!! — with acrobatic speed and intensity. An unhinged delight.
SET LIST
"Yakitori"
"Don't Light My Fire"
"S'il Vous Plait"
"Pardon?"
"Bakuro Book"
"I Am Not Maternal"
"I Checked Your Cellphone"
"Akimahenka"
MUSICIANS
Accorinrin: vocals
Yoyoyoshie: guitar, vocals
Hirochan: bass, vocals
Kahokiss: drums, vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Lars Gotrich
Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
Audio Technical Director: Josephine Nyounai
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Kara Frame, Mitra I. Arthur
Audio Engineer: Kwesi Lee
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Michael Zamora
Tiny Desk Team: Maia Stern, Hazel Cills
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
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All Comments (21)
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10/10 no notes
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Kaho is such an insane drummer. Love how she plays!
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That orange guitar is sweet. Looked it up, it’s her signature model.
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The most authentic punk band I’ve seen since back in the golden days. Their energy is unmatched
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Might be my favorite modern punk band
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they're currently at the top of my "dream concerts I have to attend to". If they can bring all this energy in a Tiny Desk Concert, imagine at a tiny club!
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Saw this band three times last year. Each time was a blast, and they never missed a beat. High recommend.
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It's impossible not to like this, if you don't like this, go have your brain scanned.
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Put the CC on it shows the translation to English. Amazing, thought-provoking group, energy, tight, syncopated and at times fluid.
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I love that the camera matched the energy , the constant zooming in and out, quick cuts and panning the camera between the musicians and the more obvious handheld look of it all. very enjoyable performance
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The guitar player has so much personality, she's just so entertaining to watch. And like every great bassist the bass player knows that to show emotion is to show weakness.
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the bass is gorgeous
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Reading through the comments on this video it's interesting that people either absolutely love it or absolutely hate it and there's no real middle ground - and that's a good thing I think!
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Absolutely insane band. Glad to see they're getting broadcast to a wider audience
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Absolutely blistering live. They tore the roof of venues in Nottingham and Leicester when I saw them in the UK. Apparently repairs are still underway...
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bassist on another level, this was awesome
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I didn't know how such a wild band would go in a smaller quieter space but this is amazing.
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Wow, drummer is a force of nature
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日本人だけどこんなかっこいいバンド知らなかった タイニーデスクありがとう！！
