SPIN is pure frontier swagger. It opens in a dusty wasteland: the singer brushes off buzzing flies, squints at the horizon, and listens to the beat of hooves with ๅปใ้ฆฌ่นใฎ้ณ [the sound of hoofbeats keeping time]. The sun is blazing, his body temperature climbs, and the steam around him turns him into a locomotive. If you know this is the opening of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run, a horse race across America, the imagery clicks right away. Fun word to learn here: ่้ (kลya) means "wilderness" or "wasteland", the classic Western backdrop.
Then the song turns inward, which is the best part. The race stops being about winning: ็ซถๆใฏ่ถ ใ ้ฝๅบฆ็พๅญฆ็ฃจใใใใซใชใ [going beyond the competition, each time I polish my own sense of style]. And my favourite line, ใพใ ใใใใญใณใใฃใขใฏๅ ๅด [the frontier that still remains is on the inside]. The chorus is honestly a bit funny, because he admits his head is the same as always and he just wants to ๆใใใจ่ธใฃใฆ [dance with foolishness]. By the end he is feeding firewood into the dusk and shouting ๅใๅใ ใปใ [spin, spin, come on]. Notice ๅใ is the imperative of ๅใ (to turn, to spin), so the title is basically an order he gives himself.
Kroi formed in February 2018 and became a five-piece when keyboardist Daiki Chiba joined in December 2019. Leo Uchida sings and plays guitar, with Masanori Seki on bass, Yuki Hasebe on guitar and Hidetomo Masuda on drums.
They mix funk, soul, R&B, rock and hip-hop, and the groove usually leads. Their first major-label album, LENS, came out in June 2021 on IRORI Records, a Pony Canyon label, and their second album, telegraph, followed in 2022.