Ellegarden

Ellegarden is one of the pop-punk band the most famous in Japan. band that was founded in 1998 and guarded by Takeshi Hosomi (guitar-vocals), Shinichi Ubukata (guitar), Yuichi Takada (bass) and Hirotaka Takahashi (drums) has been spawned five full albums, two compilation albums, 2 mini-albums, and 1 album the best.
The band used to use the lyrics with a mix of Japanese and English, where sentences pronunciation pronunciation and use of English in their songs done very well. This is because their vocalist Takeshi Hosomi, once worked as a computer technician in Oakland, California and in Japan, he has friends who work in English, in addition, he also never had a boyfriend who came from Israel.
The songs they play bands adopted pop-punk from the West, so the sense of 'Japan' that exists in their music is very minimal, although there are a lot of their songs in Japanese, especially the spoken pronunciation of English by the vocalist is very perfect, something very rare in the world of Japanese music. If you hear only the songs ellegarden who speak English without knowing the original faces personnel, surely you'd think if they come from America, or at least coming from the west. The lyrics of their songs are also very good. From funny stories to picture the feelings of loneliness. Their music also varies, ranging from slow ballad songs, to fast-punk in their songs. Degree of difficulty songs also varied, ranging from mild songs like Niji and Starfish, until the songs with lyrics mellow with guitar melodies that are difficult, like in the song I hate it.
But unfortunately, since September 2008, they declared 'Indefinite hiatus' and the personnel are now busy with his new band each, such as Takeshi Hosomi at The hiatus, Shinichi Ubukata in Nothing's Carved in Stone, and Hirotaka Takahashi in Scars boroughs. I just hope that they will re-join, because Ellegarden is my favorite Japanese band, now and ever!!! ...