Ginormous

There's more than a hint of the famous Grimm brothers' twisted fairy-tale folklore to Ginormous the third album from London-based, Tokyo-born experimentalist and former frontman of cult psychedelic-punk group Screaming Tea Party Koichi Yamanoha. Recalling a childhood with Humpty Dumpty and Mother Goose by his side, his latest offering marks the next chapter in a trilogy of self-discovery; a compendium of sonically astute storytelling where nightmares and dreams meet via French yé-yé and Casio beats. "I always wanted to write an album that sounds like a funeral and a wedding at the same time," Koichi says of the happy-sad tales extracted from the phantasmagoria of his Grimm Grimm alias' consciousness. "I wanted to create something intimate and each album is like a different road trip I've taken; all with exit doors leading to the next story. It is like a warning letter to the older and younger version of me." An outlet for his fragile, haunted, otherworldly forays into