I regularly find myself being overwhelmed by the amount of new releases greeting me upon my weekly sojourns to Tower Records - the indie section in particular forces me to spend hour upon hour at the listening posts just to ensure I don’t miss out on any potentially great new band out there, but I must admit that’s becoming increasingly difficult to pick out the wheat from the chaff these days. Too many sound-a-likes.

And that’s where GOOD ON THE REEL come into the story. Already showing plenty of promise on their first mini-album 世界分の一節 released earlier this year, the quintet build upon that potential with a fine follow-up in シュレーディンガーの二人, a record packed with the sort of catchy hooks and earnest melodies that have propelled Galileo Galilei and SEKAI NO OWARI to the upper rungs of the charts. Very pleasant on the ears indeed.

Who knows, with a bit more polishing and perhaps a little more diversity in their sound, these guys could be going places within a year or two.