sakanaction will be releasing a concept album "Natsukashii Tsuki wa Atarashii Tsuki ~Coupling & Remix works~"
(懐かしい月は新しい月; A Nostalgic Moon is a New Moon) on 5 August 2015, and the details have been announced!
This work will have 2 discs. The first disc "Tsuki no Namigata ~Coupling & Unreleased works~" (
月の波形; The Waveform of the Moon) contains coupling (aka b-side) songs on their previously released 10 singles. It also contains four tracks they have never released - self-remixes by sakanaction members, "
Night Fishing is Good (Iw_Remix)", "
Music (Ej_Remix)" and "
Identity (Ks_Remix)" - as well as a demo version of "
GO TO THE FUTURE" recorded in 2006 by Yamaguchi and Iwadera before the song's release.
The second disc "Tsuki no Hen'you ~Remix works~"
(月の変容; The Transformation of the Moon) contains "
Goodbye (NEXT WORLD REMIX)" for the first time released on CD. The song was performed on the program "NEXT WORLD Watashitachi no Mirai" on 3 January. In addition, there will be new remixes by agraph and Qrion.
The Blu-ray and DVD on limited editions are titled "Tsuki no Keshiki ~Documentary of "GO TO THE FUTURE (2006 ver.)" & MUSIC VIDEOS~"
(月の景色; The Scenery of the Moon). In it is a documentary of Iwadera and Yamaguchi recreating "
GO TO THE FUTURE (2006 ver.)", PVs of "
years", "
Slow Motion", "
Eureka (minimal demo)", and "
Holy Dance" which Yamaguchi directed for the first time.
Check out the full tracklist below!