Tujiko Noriko

b. 28 August 1976, Osaka, Japan. The sleeve of Noriko's second album, 2001's Shojo Toshi, features the Japanese musician shooting a baguette at a Japanese office worker and skateboarding in her underwear. On the follow-up, Hard Ni Sasete, a miniature Noriko is depicted tweaking the nipples and tickling the armpits of a blonde, pouting model and bending over a car whilst sucking her thumb in a seeming homage to the photos of Araki Nobuyoshi. Thankfully, her music is equal in its eccentricity to such imagery, and is set apart by its gauche and awkward loveliness. Frequently comp...