| Brand New Maid | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | May 18, 2016 | |||
| Recorded | 2016 | |||
| Studio | 
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| Genre | Hard rock [1] | |||
| Length | 31:09 | |||
| Language | Japanese | |||
| Label | 
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| Band-Maid chronology | ||||
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| Music videos | ||||
| "The Non-Fiction Days" on YouTube | ||||
| "Before Yesterday" on YouTube | ||||
| "Alone" on YouTube | ||||
Brand New Maid is the third studio album by Japanese all-female rock band Band-Maid. It was released on May 18,2016,and was their first album to be released internationally. [2] Music videos were made for "The Non-Fiction Days," "Before Yesterday," and "Alone." [3] The album reached number 19 on the Japanese Oricon Albums Chart, [4] selling 4,189 copies in its first week. [5]
The international album from JPU Records includes English lyric translations,Romaji lyric transliterations,and the live bonus track "Real Existence". [6]
JaME gave the album a positive review,saying "...they are serious about and capable of realizing their goal of "world domination." [1] J-Generation noted that the album was "bigger,tougher,deeper" than the band's previous releases and that it "...proves Band-Maid’s ready to crush any protests that their cute persona disqualifies them from the "real rock" club. [7]
Chama and Chiaki of Gekirock listed the album as the fourth and sixth best album of 2016,respectively. [8]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Non-Fiction Days" | Kanata Nakamura | Toshinari Ohnishi | Onishi | 4:44 | 
| 2. | "Look at Me" | Miwa Sasaki | Koji Goto (ck510) | Goto | 4:00 | 
| 3. | "Order" | Sasaki | Akihito Tokunaga | Tokunaga | 3:24 | 
| 4. | "Brand-New Road" | Shinichiro Yamashita | Goto | Goto | 3:55 | 
| 5. | "Yuragu" | 
 | Atsushi Yamaguchi | Spinstealthspike | 4:05 | 
| 6. | "Freedom" | Kobato | Ichiro Iguchi | Scrambles | 3:46 | 
| 7. | "Before Yesterday" | Nakamura | Hitoshi Okamoto | Okamoto | 3:47 | 
| 8. | "Alone" | 
 | Band-Maid | Band-Maid | 3:28 | 
| Total length: | 31:09 | ||||
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9. | "Real Existence" (live) | Sasaki Masakazu | Goto | 4:26 | 
| Total length: | 35:35 | |||
| Chart (2016) | Peak position | 
|---|---|
| Japan Top Albums ( Billboard ) [5] | 15 | 
| Japanese Albums ( Oricon ) [4] | 19 |