With DJ Bots not yet a member, but with a heavy big beat influence exerted over the whole band, Dragon Ash's second album builds on the ideas of Mustang!, dropping a lot of the pure punk for experiments in samples, drum loops, and forcing squares into round holes. Points of reference are Check Your Head-era Beastie Boys, "Loser"-era Beck, and the mix and match sensibilities of Jane's Addiction, but would any of those groups stop their groove in the middle of the song for a sweet, melancholic acoustic break (as on "Cherub Rock")? Kenji Furuya sings a majority of the songs here in English, not that you could make out the words without a lyric sheet -- what he does say is empowering, directed at the disaffected youth of Japan. What one realizes through listening to Dragon Ash is how many unspoken rules of Western rock are blatantly ignored (if acknowledged at all). In no way a sophomore slump. ~ Ted Mills, All Music Guide
Buzz Songs is the second full-length album by the Japanese group Dragon Ash; released in 1998.
Buzz Songs is the first full-length album where Dragon Ash member DJ BOTS can be found supplying scratch and beat samples to several of the songs, before he officially joined in 1999.
