Hoshi Noguchi presents New Sound, a rock album that gathers eight tracks and a sense of direct performance energy. The record moves between compact anthems and reflective moments: Wedding Song (feat. Sime Mikulic) opens with urgent guitar drive, I’m Alive and Wait For Me push melodic hooks, while How Long?
(feat. Sime Mikulic) and Chant explore call and response textures. Way Down Hadestown and Fly On The Wall bring darker timbres; Lion Has Got No Teeth closes with a stripped arrangement that foregrounds voice and rhythm.
Across the sequence, Hoshi Noguchi balances raw immediacy with careful arrangement, favoring riffs and vocal focus over heavy production. New Sound reached position 87 on firstChart, showing a measurable response to the material. Listeners who follow rock songwriting and compact album shapes will find in New Sound a concise program of songs that trade grand gestures for immediacy, and performances that emphasize tonal clarity and steady drive.
