Citrus has to be one of my favorite pop bands. The only beef I have with them is that they seem to be the ultimate underachievers. I don't really know that much about them, but I think they've been around almost 10 years in the Tokyo pop scene and are buddy-buddy with Cornelius and all the Shibuya crowd, but they've only put out a handful of ep's and 7 inches and not one LP. So, whenever I put on their CD or record, it's over before I know it. It's nothing like the experience I might have listening to the Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs". Anyway, their sound is like over the top sweet pop, but there's something kind of subversive and cryptic and I have no idea what they are singing about with their weird English lyrics and titles. This e.p. "wispy, no mercy" (what the hell does that mean?) is the newest of their e.p.'s. I think this one is more straight-foward than some of their previous recordings that had a lot of weird noisy home-recording like interludes in between the songs. Their sound is like guitar pop on speed layered with werird sounds that's prevalent in overproduced Japanese pop. So it's a weird mixture, but I think they'd do well here if they ever put out something over here and toured outside the little islands of Japan. For now, you can only get their stuff as imports in stores like Other Music that carries stuff from Trattoria.