, is the first studio album by Japanese rock duo Yorushika. It was released on April 10, 2019, by .
Overview It is a concept album based on the story of "Elma and Amy", written and illustrated by n-buna. The album contains a total of 14 songs by Amy, the protagonist of the story, who wrote them for Elma while travelling to different places in Sweden.
The album cover shows Amy, the character in the title track which explains how he quit music, standing in the crossroad of Tyska Skolgränd and Baggensgatan in Gamla Stan.
Making N-buna had developed the idea of writing about a man who had quit music as a way of projecting his old self. He set the story in Sweden because of having lived there as a child and the influences it had on him. He went on a trip to Sweden alone and wrote the music there. He also came up with the idea for track 7, "In June, I Write About the Town After the Rain", in a hotel in Gamla Stan as he couldn't go out due to the rain.
Release In addition to the music, the first press limited edition of the album titled "Letters to Elma" also contains lyrics and letters written by Amy along with pictures of the places he visited.
Prior to the release of the album, music videos for titles "Deep Indigo" on 27 December 2018, "Parade" on 11 March 2019, and "That's Why I Gave Up on Music" on 5 April 2019 were also released.
The duo released their second album titled Elma on 28 August 2019, which serves as a direct sequel to the story of That's Why I Gave Up on Music.
Track listing All lyrics／music／arrangement by n-buna.
Personnel
Main n-buna – lyrics, music, arrangement, piano, other instruments, and producer suis – vocals
Supporting – guitar – bass Masack – drums – piano, organ, synthesiser
Engineers／Directors／Producers – recording engineer, mixing engineer , , , – assistant engineers – recording supervisor (direction and coordination） – A&R director – executive producer
Coordinators – coordinator , , , , – promotion coordinators（U&R records）
Art – illustrations , – art director, design
Studios Recording studios – Studio Dedé (Tokyo, Japan), ABS Recording (Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan), Bunkamura Studio (Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan), Studio Mech (Meguro, Tokyo, Japan), Ginza Studio (Ginza, Tokyo, Japan), and Matsusuta Studio (Tokyo, Japan) Mixing studio – Matsusuta Studio (Tokyo, Japan) Mastered by at Sony Music Studios (Tokyo, Japan)
Charts
Weekly charts +Weekly chart performance for That's Why I Gave Up on MusicChart (2019)PeakpositionJapanese Albums (Oricon)5Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)5
Year-end charts +2019 year-end chart performance for That's Why I Gave Up on MusicChart (2019)PositionJapanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan) 63 +2020 year-end chart performance for That's Why I Gave Up on MusicChart (2020)PositionJapanese Download Albums (Billboard Japan)59
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