# Pizzicato Five — Twiggy Twiggy

Pizzicato Five’s Twiggy Twiggy (1991) is No. 1 in our Shibuya-kei ranking. The full verdict, and where to hear it.

- **Released:** 1991
- **Label:** Columbia
- **On one list:** Shibuya-kei
- **Updated:** 2026-08-31
- **Artist:** [Pizzicato Five](https://waxonia.com/artist/pizzicato-five/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/pizzicato-five--twiggy-twiggy/

## What we say

### No. 1 in [Shibuya-kei](https://waxonia.com/genre/shibuya-kei/)

Maki Nomiya deadpan over a bossa rhythm, strings and a break. The group that defined the whole look and sound, and knew exactly how arch they were being.

## Analysis

8 sections, no single moment the energy jumps to, 11% of it spent climbing.

- **Tempo:** 92.3 BPM — holds throughout
- **Dynamic range:** 3.7 dB — compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- **Length:** 3:59

- `0:00` A · **build**, instrumental — energy and brightness climbing without a break — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other
- `0:27` B · **peak** (bar 10), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, vocals
- `0:38` C · **breakdown** (bar 15), sung — energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning — playing: drums, bass, vocals
- `0:55` B · **steady** (bar 21), sung — holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other
- `1:41` A · **breakdown** (bar 39), instrumental — energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning — playing: drums, bass, other
- `2:00` B · **steady** (bar 46), sung — holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling — playing: drums, bass, vocals, other
- `2:12` C · **breakdown** (bar 51), sung — energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning — playing: drums, bass, vocals
- `2:29` D · **outro** (bar 57), instrumental — the closing fall — playing: drums, bass, other

**What is playing.** Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.

- **drums:** the drum kit, separated from the mix
- **bass:** the bass part, separated from the mix
- **vocals:** the voice, separated from the mix
- **other:** everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings

Measured from the YouTube master on 2026-08-29. Section labels describe how the energy
moves, not musical form. Anything we were not confident enough to state is omitted
rather than hedged.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Pizzicato%20Five%20Twiggy%20Twiggy) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=NcdrTlNlSds)

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