INOHA

One Liner: Bright pop rock fun from San Antonio

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but rock, pop rock, alternative, surf rock
Home: San Antonio

Poster Position: Third Quarter - Line 19
Day: Saturday
Weekend One Only.

Thoughts:  When I just pulled them up on Spotify and saw their photo, I literally said "Oh Lord" out loud.  Cheesy prom-ish picture of some dudes who look like they are 19 year olds trying to pass off as 22.  And then the first song restored my faith in the world.  Its a little punky, a little indie rock, a little alternative, a sniff of surf rock, and a lot of fun for me.

San Antonio!  It doesn't feel like we end up with many bands from SA!  But I like San Antonio.  I don't love some of the flashy new crap that is popping up there and sort of Austin-izing the scene, but there is kick ass food and good bars all around that town, along with less traffic.

Inoha on Wikipedia takes me to Japanese people - soccer players, aristocrats, and whatnot.  Apparently, one member of the band was still at Trinity University when their debut, Aloha, came out last year.  The tunes on there remind me of other folks who have come through the festival - thinking of Two Door Cinema Club and Backseat Lovers right now - but with a slightly different tweak to things.  But bright guitars and a kind of playful vocal-style make it seem fun.  The big single appears to have been "Seventh Heaven," with a whopping 52.7 million streams (way more than any other tune on here).

You hear those Two Door guitars starting that sucker off?  And then they just jam out for a bit as the singer goes on about falling apart around age 30.  Wait until you're closer to 50, kid.  "Saturday Nights" is also fun and bright, but it fell behind "GESHUOU" in the streams war.  6.2 million.

Another one that makes me grin is "Papaya Man," where the guitars sort of remind me of Turnstile's "Underwater Boi" but the lyrics about trying to find the Papaya Man cracks me up. I catch a sniff of Weezer in some of these tunes too, like in "Biggest Salmon."  The band has done some goofy YouTube stuff as well, so that when you search their name you get several entries talking about the Inoha Band Controversy!  But it appears to be a stunt and not an actual controversy with them.  Oh, those crazy kids!  I can't actually watch any of them, or many of the other pieces of media about these dudes, because I can't access TikTok or Instagram from my work computer.  Just have to assume they are as wholesome and wonderful as these tunes.  

As an indication of my pleasure here, I finished this post a while back but just kept the music rolling.  Fun stuff, I'd go watch it happen.