I love it when I discover something with tendrils. As per usual, it started with Erik, who introduced me to the soft, joyous psychedelic haze of Kikagaku Moyo. Through them, the tendril reached to the label, Guruguru Brain, and I discovered an entire world of interesting, complex yet utterly entrancing sounds from the likes of LAIR and Minami Deutsch, among others. But still more tendrils led on, and I discovered the label was co-founded and run by Go Kurosawa, who – to circle back to the beginning – was the drummer and vocalist for Kikagaku Moyo. A few years after the band’s end, he returns with soft shakes, his solo debut. It’s a change in sound that nonetheless is imbued with everything that enchanted me about Kikagaku Moyo’s music.

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