#tk from ling tosite sigure

Tk from Ling tosite sigure - Future Tone Bender feat. Milet

Tk from Ling tosite sigure - Super bloom feat. Fuyumi Abe

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Ok so @eatmysweat tagged me to add a playlist I’ve had on loop. Well as most of you know, I’ve been going through some things, and honestly only one artist has been on, for the last few weeks straight. This is Kitajima Toru, or TK from Ling Tosite Sigure.

If you don’t know them, trust you’ve heard their music before. They are a prolific vocalist, composer, and multi instrumentalist. Sooooo many bands, and the whole early 2000s screamo genre, was taken to a whole next level by this otherworldly genius! Though that brand of metal died out, TK has continued to stun the recording industry, and NO ONE has ever been able to truly replicate this type of progressive, emotion driven music, like they do. While all my friends were playing My Chemical Romance, AFI, HIM, and that whole scene; I was walkin my ass to the bus stop, in my skinny jeans, silently screaming along to the master, on my blown out shuffle!!

You don’t have to like this style of music in general, to be able to enjoy and instantly understand why sooooo many musicians, across the board, look up to TK as a visionary. If you like Centimillimental, you will like TK, I promise. Although it’s much heavier, and they have a voice as delicate as a razor, but it’s a perfect tenor. Breathy, genderless, yet perfect.

*Side note: I have a lot of reasons to think TK was very likely the main inspiration for Haruki, in many ways.

I was hoping to get some of their lyrics as a tattoo for my birthday last week, but that didn’t work out, due to finances just know that’s how much I love them and they’re one of the artists that get me through. Maybe you’ll find strength in their music, too. If you like this playlist, they’re even better live! Lemme put it to you like this; a pro musician was over for a min the other day, and they stopped and stared at the live concert, I was playing. They couldn’t even break away to finish their sentence! TK is that good !!

They’re also adorable ❤ and could kick your bfs ass!! Just sayin