Noguchi Bun | “Even If I Die, I’ll Live Forever” Review

Last Updated on 2026-06-07 by a-indie

“Even if I die, I’ll live forever.”

The fate of everything around us, that it will one day meet a certain death, is an ever-present truth. The mere remembrance of it is enough to send a subtle cold breeze down the space between the cloth and the neck’s skin.

Noguchi Bun is a 24-year-old Japanese musician based in Tokyo. In 2020, he joined the music collective C子あまね, and in 2023 he launched his solo project under the name “Noguchi Bun.”

In these three years of his solo career, he has put out three albums: 『botto』 in 2023, 『藤子』 in February of 2025, and the most recent release 『死んでも一生』 (“Even if I die, I’ll live forever”), in May of the current year, 2026.

His work is known for incorporating different elements and textures from a wide variety of music genres; he focuses on improvisation and physical sensations. His trajectory has gained him recognition from his peers and even an award nomination in Japan.

Life Within Death: What 『死んでも一生』 Asks of Us

“Even if I die, I’ll live forever.”

On the marquee for Noguchi Bun’s latest release, it reads exactly that. Can there be life even in death? Can sense be found even in an apparent contradiction?

It is a great deal of the human experience to be a witness to the growth of our collection of memories. Memories which, by nature, are imperfect. The act of recollecting is the act of painting a picture using as a reference an ever-increasing blurry photograph. Therefore, our presence in time can be seen as tender, abstract, and erratic. The three words I would use to describe 『死んでも一生』.

A Sound Where Abrasion and Peace Coexist

Via the utilisation of lo-fi samples, strings, and wind instruments, all of which appear at erratic points of each track, Noguchi Bun creates an abrasive world of sound. One which brings elements of genres such as industrial, jazz, or even classical European music, without entirely devoting to one of the aforementioned styles. They feel more like having a song stuck on the tip of your tongue without being able to recall the name of it.

This backbone for the music might feel uncomfortable at first, but as the ear eases it out and gets used to it, a sense of peace is there to be found. Like floating on your back on an unquiet body of water. Like feeling the realisation of being present in a dream.

When that dreamlike state is established, Noguchi Bun takes us on a gentle ride across this project. Interlacing intimate vocal (Vo.) performances with instrumental tracks which appear with the same level of relevance to the album as a whole.

A Bold Production That Lays Vulnerability Bare

The ethereal approach to the instrumentalisation appears to me as a demonstration of the vulnerability of the person behind the artist; Both showing this aspect of his character, and indulging in this style of production are bold moves for which I can not help but have a massive amount of respect for.