Seventeen Years Old And Berlin Wall (or 17歳とベルリンの壁, which I found helps finding them on streaming platforms) is one of the oddest band names – even for Japan, I feel obliged to add, the country that brought us Cruyff in the Bedroom. That also happens to be a good reference for this band’s music, except Seventeen etc adds a few extra layers of shoegaze – so many that it becomes almost impossible to see one’s own shoes. Kinda like Hartfield then, or some early Rocketship, if you want a non-Japanese reference. Oh, and like those bands, it is really good.