That's Why I Gave Up on Music

That's Why I Gave Up on Music (だから僕は音楽を辞めた, Dakara Boku wa Ongaku o Yameta), is the first studio album by Japanese rock duo Yorushika.

[1] It is a concept album based on the story of "Elma and Amy", written and illustrated by n-buna.

The album contains a total of 14 songs by Amy, the protagonist of the story, who wrote them for Elma while travelling to different places in Sweden.

[2][3] The Album cover shows Amy standing in the crossroad of Tyska Skolgränd and Baggensgatan in Gamla Stan N-buna had developed the idea of writing about a man who had quit music as a way of projecting his old self.

The duo released their second album titled Elma on 28 August 2019, which serves as a direct sequel to the story of That's Why I Gave Up on Music.