Music genres can sometimes be helpful guidelines for a band, but they can also end up being an albatross around a musician's neck, especially if they're part of your group's moniker.
Just ask Hiroshi Sasabuchi, drummer for rock band CQ and formerly of Tokyo Shoegazer. Speaking in a Shibuya cafe, he begins by talking about his previous group's demise.
"We didn't plan on doing Tokyo Shoegazer for very long initially, but when we put out the record it sold more than expected, so we decided to try it out for a while," he says. "Because we put the word 'shoegazer' in the band name, we were really limited in what we could do. Compared to that, I feel like we're really free now."