Karkador

Karkador is the sixth album by the Japanese electronic rock band P-Model. It was the first album where front-man Susumu Hirasawa was the sole remaining founding member and the only one to feature Tadahiko Yokogawa. This album was inspired from Hirasawa's dream journals, and follows the New Wave style of their preceding album, Scuba, but with an expanded sound.

Background and composition

Karkador was mainly inspired by the dreams of P-Model's vocalist Susumu Hirasawa. He had been seeing a Jungian counselor at a welfare facility for the mentally ill in Takayama, as he was in a troubled mental state at the time. The counselor suggested that he record his dreams in a notebook to aid his recovery. He developed a narrative based on those notes, and the lyrics were written from there. According to the Hirasawa Lyrics Tumblr and the Music Industrial Wastes book, the album title came from the name of a bird that he drew. "Every song from the album is linked together by a single story, and the job of the audience is to construct that story as they listen to them."