downy were a Japanese band often classified under the genres and sub-genres of post-rock

Post-rock

Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...

, ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

, post-metal

Post-metal

Post-metal is a music genre, a mixture between the genres of post-rock and heavy metal.Hydra Head Records owner and Isis frontman Aaron Turner originally termed the genre "thinking man's metal", demonstrating that his band was trying to move away from common metal conventions...

, and shoegaze.

downy released four studio album releases in the 2000s, all titled Mudai, which roughly translates to Untitled. Each release has a distinct yet mutually comparable sound. The band broke up some time after the release of their fifth album, a live recording CD.

Discography

• Tsuki yadoru Zenryou (single) - 2000
• Mudai (1st) - 2001
• Mudai (2nd) - 2002
• Mudai (3rd) - 2003
• eizo sakushin shu "Mudai" CD/DVD - 2003
• Mudai (4th) - 2004
• Mudai (live) - 2005

Members

• Robin Aoki (vocals, guitar)
• Aoki Yutaka (guitar)
• Nakamata Kazuhiro (bass)
• Akiyama Takahiko (drums)
• Zakuro (videos)