"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 3/11/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Kikagaku Moyo is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 14 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Kikagaku Moyo is rated as a superb live performer, with impressive shows overall. Kikagaku Moyo concert reviews describe live shows and performances as psychedelic, mesmerising, and adventurous.
Kikagaku Moyo, meaning "geometric patterns", is a psychedelic rock band from Tokyo, Japan, founded in the summer of 2012 by Go Kurosawa and Tomo Katsurada.
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Glide Magazine (USA)
October 11, 2022
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At the top of this year Tokyo’s foremost emissaries of psychedelic rock, Kikagaku Moyo, announced that after a decade as a band they would be going on indefinite hiatus. Before calling it quits they gifted fans with the release of their fifth and final studio album, last May’s Kumoyo Island
On the last show of their Australian tour, Japanese psych rockers Kikagaku Moyo made their long-waited return to Perth. Last in Australia for Gizzfest 2017, the band have since received international recognition for their mesmerising psychedelic live performances and have built a fanbase in WA.
The clamour quickly died down and the band remained stoic, almost mute as they plugged in and fired up their various instruments, The most notable of these, at the from of the stage being an electric sitar.
Here they come: five cats from Japan, who go by the collective name of Kikaguku Moyo. They sail the high seas under the freak flag of psychedelia but just like any other emblem of convenience this broad definition of the band’s music is rather misleading.
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