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}} ''Kikuuiki'' ("Mixing Airspace", stylized as ''kikUUiki'') is the fourth studio album by Japanese band Sakanaction. It was released on March 17, 2010, through Victor Entertainment. The album was preceded in January by the single "Aruku Around", which was met with the greatest commercial success for the band since their debut, reaching number three on Oricon's singles chart. Sakanaction spent most of 2009 experimenting on the album's single "Aruku Around", followed by two months of album recording in January and February 2010. Much of the final recording stages were spent on the album's leading promotional song, "Me ga Aku Aiiro", a seven-minute rock opera. The album saw a new recording approach for the band, where the members worked more spontaneously, with a higher degree of synchronicity between them. The album was influenced by the commercial success of "Aruku Around", and was written as a response to this song. The album was nominated as one of the finalists for the CD Shop Awards, and was lauded by critics for its cohesive, fusion sound and literary lyrics. At the time of release, it was their most commercially successful release since their debut, reaching number three on Oricon's albums chart. == Background and development == After releasing two studio albums based in Sapporo, the band moved to Tokyo in Spring 2009 to further their musical potential. Their first album produced in Tokyo, ''Shin-shiro'' (2009), saw a new approach for the band, where band vocalist Ichiro Yamaguchi asked the other members of Sakanaction to produce songs individually, instead of together as a group. Led by the singles "Sen to Rei" and "Native Dancer", the album became their most commercially successful in their career to date, peaking at number eight on Oricon's album chart. Despite this, Yamaguchi was disappointed with the sales, and was not sure why the album stalled at only 30,000 copies sold. After the release of the album in January 2009, Sakanaction performed a two-month long tour of Japan, Sakanaquarium 2009: Shinshiro. This was followed by the band making appearances at many summer music festivals, including Sweet Love Shower, Nano-Mugen Fes, Rock in Japan and Rising Sun Rock Festival. On June 13, 2009, Sakanaction performed at Version 21.1, a newly created rock event set up by Sakanaction and the rock bands Ogre You Asshole and the Telephones to showcase rock music of the 2010s. On October 10, Sakanaction performed their first overseas concert, the Gentra X Ssamzie Sound Festival in Paju, South Korea. Yamaguchi had already started creating ideas for ''Kikuuiki'' in February 2009, less than a month after the release of ''Shin-shiro''. The band spent most of 2009 experimenting on the song "Aruku Around", and performed the song at their summer festival appearances at Rock in Japan and Rising Sun Rock Festival, in order to test the song to see how the audience would react to different changes. After "Aruku Around" was released as a single in January 2010, it became a popular and critical success; reaching number three on Oricon's single charts, praised for its strong arrangement and Yamaguchi's poetic lyrics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/419701/products/848213/1/ )〕〔 The single's success surprised the band, who never considered it could become as popular as it did. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kikuuiki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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