Deranged Angel by Adenosine Tri Phosphate (ATP) is probably my favorite alternative rock album of all time. It was released on January 1, 2000 with a CD released without a label. This is their second album, they had a couple of EP releases before this as well. There is a grand total of 14 tracks in this album with the last two being bonuses. Some genres this album is alternative rock, ethereal wave, shoegaze and pop rock.
I could not find much on this band but I was able to find some cool bits of information. The group includes Taata (Lead Vocals), Mug (Guitar), Sugar (Guitar), Kohei (Bass) and Kaz (Drums). Now I’m not fully sure but I’m going to go ahead and guess those names are aliases because they sound cartoonish. The band is from Japan and named after the molecule that helps muscles move. They grab inspirations from Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Cure and The Beatles while not following their music like a blueprint, instead they do anything to make a song work and sound good.
What I really like about Deranged Angel is that it seems to flow very well between English and Japanese, the vocalist never sounds awkward speaking English like some songs I’ve heard, e.g., “Video Killed The Radio Star” by yes, mama okay?. I’d say all of the songs on this album are solid but I want to give special praise to “Beyond My White Time”, “Angel” and “My Old Green Martian Baby” because they are the best in my opinion. My only problem with this album is that track 12 is four minutes long with another four minutes of silence tacked onto it.
This album is really good, it is criminal that the band only has such low monthly listeners on Spotify. Deranged Angel by Adenosine Tri Phosphate is a 4.6/5 because of how consistently good it is. Some descriptors for this album would be psychedelic, melodic and dense. Additionally I would recommend this to anyone who likes Rose McDowall because it sounds pretty similar to that. Also I’d like to say that Spotify needs to get their act together and make sure all of an artist’s music is available because half of their discography isn’t even there.
