is the fifth

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by Japanese

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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 1984 by multi-instrum ...

. It was released on September 1, 1991 by the

Nippon Columbia , often pronounced ''Korombia'', operating internationally as , is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as Nipponophone Co., Ltd. It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK C ...

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 is known as the . Maki 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 t ...

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 styl ...

sound with elements of

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and began to more fully incorporate sampling into their music. ''This Year's Girl'' was reissued by

Readymade Records A found object (a calque from the French ''objet trouvé''), or found art, is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have ...

on September 30, 2000 and March 31, 2006.

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* {{Authority control 1991 albums Pizzicato Five albums Nippon Columbia albums 1990s Japanese-language albums