The Official World's End Girlfriend Thread

[Gabble Ratchet]

World's End Girlfriend is the solo project of Katsuhiko Maeda, and since 2000 he has created 9 albums. At the age of 10, Katsuhiko was inspired by his father's collection of classical music, and he started composing his own songs two years later using guitars and keyboards, recorded on tapes and computers. He has since written over 600 songs, as well as composing the soundtrack for "Air Doll", a Japanese drama movie.

The musical style of World's End Girlfriend is quite unique, there are elements of classical, electronica, post-rock and experimental, but it is largely a style of it's own. Song lengths will often stretch for 15 minutes or more, and every one of them is instrumental. I would personally describe it as "A beautiful, chaotic, masterful, cataclysm". It is certainly not for every ear, and it can often be extremely challenging to listen to, but for the adventurous soul it can be very rewarding. World's End Girlfriend's songs are just as packed with emotion and ambiance as they are with jarring crashes and screaming instruments. The end result is a seemingly impossible contrast, but it all seems to work. World's End Girlfriend also tours constantly and all over the world, bringing the music to life with various technologies.

The albums are:

Ending Story (2000):


Farewell Kingdom (2001):


Xmas Song (2001) (Released under the name World's End Boyfriend):

Dream's End Come True (2002):

Enchanted Landscape Escape (2002):


The Lie Lay Land (2005):

Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain (2006) (Collaboration with Mono):

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

Hurtbreak Wonderland (2007):


Seven Idiots (2010):


And finally, some of the actual music itself:















As you can hopefully see by now, this man is truly an artist, and his attention to detail is staggering both visually on the album covers and musically in his compositions. I am blown away by his music, and I hope this thread does him justice!

 

[Harkat]

Oh his stuff most certainly is unique, it has a bit of this and that but it melds them all into something quite amazing.
Sometimes it sounds absolutely serene then next moment its just chaos! Beautiful ordered chaos!
Someone who you just must listen to at least once!

 

[TheFeldster]

Interesting music.

Almost seems as if it would be used as a film soundtrack or something, if that makes sense. Anyway, that's what I'm getting from it. Not sure if I like it yet or not, may need to listen to a bit more to formulate an opinion

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

His music is very cinematic indeed, possibly due to his classical and post-rock influences. Some of it was featured in another Japanese movie "Late Bloomer" in 2004 as well as his composition for Air Doll. It's really just grand and epic music!

 

[METALPRIEST]

This stuff is pretty odd and different. We Are The Massacre is pretty cool!

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

^^ I listened to We Are The Massacre just then, it's definitely one of his more beautiful compositions. I also find it to have a bit of a haunting quality to it, the screams in the background add to a dark atmosphere. I love it though!

 

[Prime]

This band is going onto my last.fm station. As soon as I started We Are The Massacre, I knew I was going to love it. Post Rock is truly a unique genre, but sounds amazing if it's done right. And this is definitely done right.

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

Humpty Bumpty!

Been listening to WEG a bit more recently, and his music only gets better with time. I even kitted out my profile with some edited live pictures I found!