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}} , stylised as ''RADWIMPS 4 ~Okazu no Gohan~'', is Japanese rock band Radwimps' fourth album, released on December 6, 2006. It was the band's break-through commercial album, debuting at number five on Oricon's albums charts, and was their first album to be certified platinum by the RIAJ. "Yūshinron" was awarded in 2007 in the Space Shower Music Video Awards, with the award for best art direction. == Background and development == After the band's ''Radwimps Haruna Tour'' in September 2005, the band rush-recorded five songs, including the singles "Futarigoto" and "Yūshinron." These two songs took up an extreme amount of effort for the band.〔 "Futarigoto" was a song originally intended for ''Radwimps 3'', however as the band could not work out how to complete the song properly, it was shelved. "By My Side", the B-side on the "Setsuna Rensa" single was also a part of these sessions.〔 Work on ''Radwimps 3'' was finalised in December 2005, but as the band still had many things they wanted to try, they immediately started work on their next album.〔 For the band's fourth album, the members consciously focused on the sound the band had. This is in comparison to the band's first album, in which they had an image, but had not really considered what it was.〔 However, the band did not start out with a particular concept to work around.〔 Vocalist and lyricist Yojiro Noda noted that while lyrics were the central point of ''Radwimps 3'', the importance of the lyrics were more balanced with other aspects in ''Radwimps 4''.〔 When the band recorded "Bagoodbye" (after the sessions that produced "Yūshinron"), they noted there was stylistically something good about it, and then considered it the focal stylistic point of the album. Noda also felt that it was exactly the sort of statement Radwimps had wanted to make in a song.〔〔 ''Radwimps 4'' felt like a point in experimentation where the band had wanted to get to, where in ''Radwimps 2'' they first felt this desire, and in ''Radwimps 3'' they felt closer to their target.〔 "Enren" is the first Radwimps song based around fictional events.〔 It was created by Noda after fans had kept requesting a long-distance relationship-themed song. Many of the song titles in the album contain wordplay. "05410-(n)" is goroawase (writing numbers and using their phonetic pronunciations) for the Japanese word . The -(ん) in the title is intended to indicate the 10 should be pronounced as the English world ''ten'', but with the n removed. "Masumaru" is written with the hiragana ''masu'', followed by a Japanese-style circle full-stop, in this instance pronounced . The resulting name, ''masumaru'', which is similar to the Japanese pronunciation to marshmallow, . "Setsuna Rensa" and "Sanbyōshi" are songs with multiple readings of the same words. In "Setsuna Rensa", means chain/connection, while ''setsuna'' has a duel meaning of and . is the Japanese word for 3/4 metre, while ''san'' in the title is given the different kanji 傘, which means umbrella. Of the songs on the album, eight are sung completely in Japanese, two primarily in Japanese with English phrases, one entirely in English, and three primarily in English with Japanese stanzas. 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「Radwimps 4: Okazu no Gohan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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