Cosmos (Buck-Tick album)

Cosmos is the ninth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. The album was released on June 21, 1996, through Victor Entertainment.^[1] It was the group's last album released through Victor and peaked at number six on the Oricon charts.^[2] Cosmos has sold 130,000 copies within two weeks.^[3] The album was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with two bonus tracks. It was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. The song "Tight Rope" was later re-recorded as the b-side to the group's "Alice in Wonder Underground" single in 2007,^[4] and "Sane" was re-recorded in 2012 for their "Elise no Tame ni" single.^[5] The album was heavily influenced by electronic music, as the band started gravitating towards cyberpunk music.^[6][7]

Cosmos
Studio album by Buck-Tick
Released	21 June 1996 (1996-06-21) 19 September 2002 (2002-09-19) (digital remaster) 5 September 2007 (2007-09-05) (remaster)
Recorded	March–April 1996 at Sound Sky Kawana in Tokyo; Victor Studio in Tokyo
Genre	Electropunk
Length	49:50
Language	Japanese, English
Label	Victor
Producer	Koniyang and Buck-Tick
Buck-Tick chronology
Six/Nine (1995) Cosmos (1996) Sexy Stream Liner (1997)
Singles from Cosmos
"Candy" Released: 22 May 1996

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Atsushi Sakurai, except where noted; all music is composed by Hisashi Imai, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Maria"	3:52
2.	"Candy" (キャンディ)	4:23
3.	"Chocolate" (チョコレート; music written by Hidehiko Hoshino)	4:05
4.	"Sane"	4:34
5.	"Tight Rope"	5:16
6.	"Idol"	4:58
7.	"Living on the Net" (lyrics written by Imai)	4:07
8.	"Foolish"	3:59
9.	"In" (music written by Hoshino)	4:31
10.	"Ash-ra"	5:09
11.	"Cosmos"	5:01
Total length:		49:50

2002 digital remaster bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
12.	"Candy" (single version)	4:23
13.	"Chocolate" (single version; music written by Hoshino)	4:05

Personnel

• Atsushi Sakurai - lead vocals
• Hisashi Imai - lead guitar, backing vocals
• Hidehiko Hoshino - rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Yutaka Higuchi - bass
• Toll Yagami - drums

Additional performers

• Kazutoshi Yokoyama - piano, backing vocals

Production

• Koniyang - producer, recording, mixing^[A], mastering
• Buck-Tick - producers
• Takafumi Muraki; Naoki Toyoshima - executive producers
• Shinichi Ishizuka - mixing^[A]
• Hitoshi Hiruma; Takahiro Uchida - engineers
• Kenichi Araki; Akinori Kaizaki; Hiroshi Tanigawa; Masanobu Murakami; Naoki Ibaraki; Mikiro Yamada - assistant engineers
• Ken Sakaguchi - cover art, graphic design
• Nicci Keller; Alan Solon - photography

Notes

1. ^ ^* The only song that Shinichi Ishizuka mixed and that Koniyang did not mix was "Chocolate".