- Despite of how powerful the song’s world and performance are, it’s a good opening of the album. (Takeda)
- It has a new feeling as a RAD song. For example the chorus suddenly changes the song’s world, the drums disappear, but then there’s the entanglement of the guitar and bass and such. It shows various colors, isn’t it? (Yamaguchi)
Kimi to Hitsuji to Ao
- (about ‘Kimi to Hitsuji to Ao’ = Ultramarine)*
A lot of people don’t notice it. Lol (Noda)
- Since this song based on a riff that Youjirou played during the performance/rehearsal of a summer festival, it keeps being a live-ish song. (Takeda)
- The guitar sounds simple, it seems like we do something difficult. (Kuwahara)
- I think this song is the album’s symbol. Playing a song of loneliness, the four of us, sounded like loneliness… Does the song convey this?
- It’s full of emotions, expressed in a good way. Because this song is like This song is like when you sprint into a barely 2 cm width fence with full force. (Noda)
- The song’s world and it’s performance are heading to the same direction. It became so good, even I’m surprised. (Takeda)
- I only join in from the second, since Youjirou plays the guitar, but when the two are mixed, it sounds like a miracle. (Kuwahara)
- In this the drums starts slowly, then regenerate to double speed. (Yamaguchi)
- Also, it’s a track made by sped up the originally recorded sound, so when we play it live, drums are added to the background music. (Noda)
- It’s a nice feeling as the melody of the chorus is getting faster, this song is delightful from beginning to end. (Yamaguchi)
- For this album, I didn’t have any trouble writing lyrics. I wanted to take back once again this overflowing sensation. This song is the exact symbol of that. (Noda)
DUGOUT
- It’s interesting to hear how the chorus together with the lyrics, expanding. Distant, but spreading. (Yamaguchi)
- We made it’s first version 3~4 years ago. (Noda)
- I think it has a nostalgic RAD feeling. I’m glad that finally this song I liked got a new shape. (Kuwahara)
- (The reason of Cat ver.) is that we put Saitou Neko-san’s violin a lot in this song. Lol (Noda)
- What’s not the band’s concept, we drop it as a band. I’m glad we agreed to this kind of arrangement rally where everybody response to one’s reaction. (Noda)
- With this song, the band had a tacit understanding. Since we had the feeling that it’ll become something great, we had this tension of facing a challenge. (Yamaguchi)
- It feels like the answers to the untouched questions of many songs are all in this song. Since we have this song, the album can go as far as it’s possible. (Noda)
- When I heard this song from Youjirou, I thought that maybe I don’t want to play it. It was that awesome. (Kuwahara)
- When we finished recording this song, we were deeply moved. (Takeda)
*If we put together the 3 kanji 君、羊、青 from the title, we get the word 群青(Gunjou) which means Ultramarine.
Source: What’s In? magazine No. 295 (2012. January)