Carrots and Sticks (album)

The album was first announced on April 1, 2019, during Bish's theater screening of Bring Icing Shit Horse Tour Final "The Nude", a film documenting the group's concert "Bring Icing Shit Horse Tour" at Makuhari Messe in December 2018.

In the video, producer Kenta Matsukuma described Sticks as containing songs that were "dirty, can't sell, and noisy", while Carrots would contain "sellable, cool" songs.

[1][2] On June 12, Bish "released" the entire album through Tower Records 21 days before the official release date, a stunt also pulled for the previous album, The Guerrilla Bish.

However, it was soon revealed that the album was a fake: all fourteen songs were performed by producers Kenta Matsukuma and JxSxK under the name "Beat Mint Boyz".

[3][4][5] Nevertheless, the fake album managed to climb to 6th place on the Oricon weekly charts.