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In clean­ing out my Douban mails over the hol­i­days, I came across new song noti­fi­ca­tions for two of my favorite bands — Ashura & The Life Jour­ney.

Let’s start with Life Jour­ney, just because their songs were added most recently. They have two new songs out: Marry and 小南 (xiǎo nán). They were released days before the Chi­nese New Year hol­i­day and came with an adorable New Years mes­sage video on Youku (embed­ded below the cut). These songs aren’t exactly dif­fer­ent from your stan­dard Life Jour­ney fare — they still sound like lul­la­bies that you should lis­ten to with a cup of Eng­lish Break­fast tea while wear­ing your favorite grey cardi­gan — but they’re new, and that’s the most impor­tant thing for a band that hasn’t had new tracks in nearly a year.

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