Hot on the heels of the joining of their new band members, bassist Shiori and and drummer Hiruma, START OF THE DAY (formerly written as StartOfTheDay) has announced a new album, Love, to be released on September 29. All I can say is HALLELUJAH!! This will be the band’s first original album since the release of Melody Runner in November 2008. If you’d like to check out the CDJapan page for the new album, you can do so here.
This news wasn’t entirely unexpected, since the members have been posting in-studio photos on their personal blogs for a few weeks now, but even so… it’s hard for me to not feel complete and utter delight over this announcement. After spending months worrying about whether or not the group would be able to go on after losing their original bassist and drummer last year, to see the members taking music seriously again is very, very good.
One important note needs to be made, here: the band is officially writing their name as START OF THE DAY (all caps, separate words) for this release. For prior CDs, the band’s name is written as StartOfTheDay. Interestingly enough, if you look at CDJapan’s list of releases, you’ll see that the name is all over the place–Start of the day being the most common way to write it–but my physical copies of the albums (and the official website!) don’t lie. I had previously released abnormal amounts of rage on Last.fm users who voted Start of the day the “official” spelling, but now it looks like that was silly… hehe. For now, I think I’ll be leaving the prior releases tagged as StartOfTheDay, and switch to the all-caps version for this new release. (Yes, I think about this shit. Sorry.)
Semitics aside, I can hardly wait to hear the new album. This band has been through a lot, and I’m pleased to see that they’re coming out of it fighting.