Lars Gotrich | May 10, 2024
Mannie Fresh bum rushed the crowd and mugged for the camera. Soul Glo’s Pierce Jordan stunted on office furniture. Moses Sumney played our window-side piano. Some moments were staged and others spontaneous, but sometimes an artist just needs to “break the frame“ of Tiny Desk. Case in point: Our puny shelves and cluttered junk could not contain Otoboke Beaver’s Yoyoyoshie, who literally lept out from behind the Desk, ran to the wide shot and shred a noisy guitar solo most triumphantly.
Kyoto, Japan’s Otoboke Beaver came into the NPR Music office with string lights color coordinated to the members’ floral print dresses, an edamame hair clip for our wall and a giant, inflatable beaver. In two-minute bursts of fast, furious and outrageously fun punk rock, the band’s music is a gleeful exercise in absurdist evisceration — of Japanese societal norms, gender roles, annoying trolls and bad boyfriends. Every song smirks as it explodes. At the Tiny Des
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6 months ago 00:01:56 12
Otoboke Beaver - What do you mean you have talk to me at this late date? (Live on KEXP)
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Otoboke Beaver - I checked your cellphone (Live on KEXP)
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Otoboke Beaver - I don’t want to die alone / anata watashi daita ato yome no meshi (Live on KEXP)
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Otoboke Beaver - YAKITORI / Akimahenka / Don’t light my fire (Live on KEXP)
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Otoboke Beaver おとぼけビ~バ~ - Pardon? [Official Music Video]
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Otoboke Beaver - おとぼけビ~バ~ - あなたわたし抱いたあとよめのめしAnata Watashi Daita Ato Yome No Meshi [Official MV]
8 months ago 00:01:17 2
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9 months ago 00:09:16 2
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9 months ago 00:04:26 1
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11 months ago 00:00:10 1
🐉𝓗𝓐𝓟𝓟𝓨 𝓝𝓔𝓦 𝓨𝓔𝓐𝓡 2024 🐉
11 months ago 00:02:22 1
Otoboke Beaver - I am not maternal (アイドンビリーブマイ母性) (Live on KEXP)
1 year ago 00:01:41 1
Otoboke Beaver - I checked your cellphone (携帯みてしまいました) (Live on KEXP)
1 year ago 00:02:11 1
Otoboke Beaver “Don’t light my fire“ (SXSW Online 2021)
1 year ago 00:00:16 5
She is so fast!
1 year ago 00:01:50 1
Otoboke Beaver at Werfpop 2022 “What Do You Mean You Have Talk to Me at This Late Hour?“
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IsBread - THIRTY
2 years ago 01:19:59 32
Otoboke Beaver [Emergency Live] Bandcamp Live 01/05/2021
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Otoboke Beaver - YAKITORI (ヤキトリ) (Live on KEXP)
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Otoboke Beaver LIVE at Damnably (July 2022)
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Otoboke Beaver おとぼけビ~バ~ - Love Is Short ラブ・イ
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Don’t Light My Fire | Otoboke Beaver at SXSW Online 2021