One of the catchiest, breeziest bands you’ll hear.
Cero play chic, sophisticated Japanese “city pop” with a touch of funk, soul and RnB.

This Tokyo-based ‘Contemporary Exotic Orchestra’ is a warm daydream, with lovely understated guitar lines, catchy vocal harmonies that ebb and swell, and a backbeat that shapeshifts between polyrhythms and quirky time signatures.

A glorious addition to Japan’s tendency of throwing up some of music’s most surprising oddities, cero is hard to pin down stylistically: drifting incestuously across genres. To our ears, they’re somewhere next to the slow-burn of Grizzly Bear and the smoldering haze of Japanese reggae legends Fishmans. Add to that, a generous doze of danceable groove.

After a long-overdue China debut at Concrete & Grass 2017, they’re back for a two-city China tour.  Sunday the 21st in Shanghai’s LOFAS.