DOACOCK
It's A Pleasing Day

Sometimes it happens that you really have nothing better to do and you spend hours on YouTube searching for songs.

Like gold prospectors scraping the bottom of streams in the old west in search of nuggets, here I am delving into the "stream" (not by chance, exactly the translation of "lil stream") of the suggestions on the right side of the screen - and suddenly there it is. "It’s A Pleasing Day," a track by the highly improbable Japanese band DOACOCK.

Everything about this band seems to be a question mark. What kind of name is that? What genre do they play? Who are these guys and what happened to them?

This mythical band from the Land of the Rising Sun has one full-length album to their name dated 2012, with a handful of EPs as a corollary and a rare debut album (thanks @ZiorPlus for the investigation!). "It’s A Pleasing Day" is precisely the second track of their album, and it’s something that really makes me smile, in the best possible sense! The song starts with a killer dissonant guitar riff - so much so that I would have expected a post-hardcore continuation. The body is already preparing to react to heavy drums and screaming piercing vocals. Brace your wrists, grit your teeth and... everything changes! The track turns into a kind of super cheerful funk-rock-fusion. The song's video also clearly speaks to the band's ironic side. These funny Japanese hipsters are busy partying in a house, and this song can’t help but put you in a good mood.

The other songs by the group focus on this kind of very carefree "Party Rock." Usually, it's not my thing, but there’s something about this group that has a certain magnetism. From the very colorful approach to the somewhat questionable English lyrics, there is a certain childish energy that makes this song very captivating, especially in the way these musicians don’t take themselves seriously at all.