My Little Lover

Japanese pop group My Little Lover formed in 1995 around the core membership of vocalist Akko (Akamatsu Akiko) and guitarist Fujii Kenji, with producer and keyboard player Kobayashi Takeshi joining soon after (and marrying Akko the following year). Quickly rising to national prominence, the group's sound came to be emblematic of the late-'90s J-pop sound shared with similar artists such as Every Little Thing and the Brilliant Green. My Little Lover's debut album, Evergreen, was released in 2005, and they quickly established themselves as a Top Ten act in Japan's Oricon charts,...