Creep Hyp
Japanese rock band formed in 2001.
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Creep Hyp (クリープハイプ) is a Japanese rock band affiliated with the agency Primitive and under the Universal Music Japan label. Their name can be abbreviated to Creep クリープ.
History
Ozaki formed the three-piece band Creep Hyp in 2001 with local friends Adachi and Ichikawa. In 2008, the two members at the time, Nishida and Mishiro, left, and Ozaki became a one-man unit, a period he discussed in his novel Yuusuke. Ogawa, Hasegawa, and Koizumi joined in 2009, and group activities began. The band started appearing in music magazines, television shows, and on radio in 2011.
They made their major debut on April 18, 2012, with the album Shinu made isshou aisa reteru to omotteta yo, which won the 2013 CD Shop Grand Prize. Their first single, Oyasuki nakigoe, sayonara utahime, released October 3, 2012, debuted at number 7 on the weekly Oricon Chart. In 2013 they released the singles Shakai no mado (debuted at number 10) and U, sansan (used in a Shiseido Anessa commercial), and the album Fukikoboreru hodo no I, ai, ai, which won the 2014 CD Shop Grand Prize.
The film Jibun no koto bakari de nasakenaku naru yo, with original story by Ozaki and music by Creep Hyp, was released October 26, 2013. On December 18, 2013, SMAP's single Shareotsu/Hello included the song Hello, written and composed by Ozaki.
Members
Sekaikan Ozaki is the vocalist and guitarist. He was born in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, and graduated from Iwakura High School. The name Sekaikan reportedly came from an early live in 2005 when an audience member suggested it; he previously used the name Yuusuke Ozaki. In 2016 he debuted as an author with the semi-autobiographical novel Yuusuke under Bungei Shunju.
Yukichika Ogawa is the guitarist and likes coffee. Kaonashi Hasegawa is the bassist and chorus; Hasegawa is not his real surname, and he insisted on using that name despite encouragement from the other members at debut. He also handles writing, composition, vocals, and violin on some songs. Taku Koizumi is the drummer, the oldest member, and graduated from the department of economics at Chuo University; he began playing drums after enjoying taiko drums at a summer festival in elementary school.
Former members include Yuusaka Nishida and Kazuki Mishiro, who left in 2008 and joined The Cheserasera; Noriyuki Ooshiro, listed on the 1st mini album Negairi and now in Brown Envelope; and Adachi (bassist) and Ichikawa (drummer), listed on the back of the untitled cassette tape. Some members have repeatedly joined and left, and details about others are unclear.
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- Wikipedia: Creep Hyp (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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