n5MD signs ent
December 18, 2009
Californian indie label n5MD will release ent’s debut album Welcome Stranger in the US/worldwide in 2010. The US release will contain all 7 songs from the Japanese release plus 3 remixes. Ent is the solo project of Atsushi Horie, frontman of STRAIGHTENER and FULLARMOR.
Welcome Stranger was originally released in February 2009 by Preco Records. The album, 3 years in the making, was a more personal and sentimental journey for Atsushi. Heavily influenced by electronics and post-rock, Atsushi combined these elements with pop sensibilities from his other projects.
J-Rock Explosion 
I think this song shines with the creativity straightener has been lacking lately since they got a guitarist. Definitely sounds like “electronics and post-rock.” I’m not so sure about “pop-sensibility.”
The video really kills the song, though.