The first post from Tokyo proper – Kon’nichiwa! – should be the band that kick-started this whole J-pop/J-gaze obsession that’s been going on hereabouts for over a year, and is in no small part one of the reasons I’m here right now (don’t tell my family) – the dear departed For Tracy Hyde. I’ve celebrated their swan song Hotel Insomnia plenty, so for this we’ll rewind a few records to 2017’s He(R)Art, another beautifully sprawling collection of dreampop.

Here’s a live version of same, recorded in Bangkok in 2020:

And wish you knew how to play it on guitar? There’s a YouTube for that!