With a genre-hopping approach they call "Tokyo new mixture," King Gnu are one of the major hitmakers of Japan in the 2020s. After building a fan base off songs placed on television like "Hakujitsu" and "Hikotei," the quartet took songs like "Sanmon Shosetsu," "Senryo Yakusha" and the chart-topping "Ichizu" and "Sakayume" to the upper reaches of the local singles charts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The built-up goodwill and a unique audiovisual style led to a series of successful stadium shows once lockdown restrictions were lifted.
The members of King Gnu -- Daiki Tsuneta (v...