is the fifth studio album by Japanese pop band

Pizzicato Five Pizzicato Five (formerly typeset as Pizzicato V and sometimes abbreviated to P5)Yang Jeff, Dina Can, Terry Hong, (1997) ''Eastern Standard Time'' pg 277 New York: Mariner Books was a Japanese pop band formed in Tokyo in 1979 by multi-instrume ...

. It was released on September 1, 1991 by the Nippon Columbia imprint Seven Gods, serving as the band's first album for Nippon Columbia. ''This Year's Girl'' is the first Pizzicato Five album to feature

Maki Nomiya is a Japanese singer and musician. She released her first solo album in 1981, and worked through the 1980s as the lead vocalist of the new wave band . In 1991, she became the lead singer of the band Pizzicato Five. When the group disbanded in 20 ...

as lead vocalist. On the album, the band augmented their

Shibuya-kei is a microgenre of pop music or a general aesthetic that flourished in Japan in the mid-to late 1990s. The music genre is distinguished by a "cut-and-paste" approach that was inspired by the kitsch, fusion, and artifice from certain music styles ...

sound with elements of alternative dance and began to more fully incorporate sampling into their music. ''This Year's Girl'' was reissued by Readymade Records on September 30, 2000 and March 31, 2006.

Track listing

Charts

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* {{Authority control 1991 albums Pizzicato Five albums Nippon Columbia albums Japanese-language albums