It's every struggling musician's dream: One moment you're scrounging around for gigs and a record deal while trying to keep food on the table and pay the rent, and the next moment, you've got a hit record on your hands and suddenly the talk of the town.
That's more or less what's happened in the last year or so to Naoki Sato and Kumi (she prefers to use a single name), who together comprise the "unit" known as Love Psychedelico.
Their first album, audaciously titled "The Greatest Hits," has sold well over 1 million copies since being released on Jan. 11. It's a stunningly assured debut effort. The songs are replete with catchy hooks and riffs that you just can't get out of your head, and the production style is clean, bold and gutsy -- light-years away from the anemic sound that's all too typical of Japanese pop/rock music.