With a sound as sweet as their name and as sunny as an August day, HONEY SAC are pure pop, plain and simple.
First formed in Kansai in 2002, the all-female five-piece started touring throughout the rest of Japan with the release of their self-produced debut Starting Over in 2005.
The first two songs on their newest EP, 2008's Rakka Slider (Cozee Records), mix big melodies, crunchy guitars, and spaced-out organ, recalling the Elephant 6 pop sound of bands like Apples in Stereo and Dressy Bessy without the sometimes psychedelic overtones, while the 80s-tastic "Fellow Feeling" feels like something the Knight Sabers might have played in the classic rock-meets-mecha anime Bubblegum Crisis and the closer "Fighting Girl!" adds horns and a bubbly, ska-like bounce.