#3496 Yasuaki Shimizu - IQ 179

4/5 see! This is why albums matter! There's songs on here so packed with enough crooning, saxes, and guitars that you'd call it as schlock. But the rest is so weird, alternately chopped to pieces, spare and breathful, repetitively nightmarish, endlessly neon, until it all melts into a pop-art experimental synthwave prophecy. I'm not sure I even like any of the weird songs on their own (title track in particular is a dud), but the combined effect is so hypnotic and strange that it's an enthralling listen.