Masato Abe is a Tokyo-based artist. He's not really known, his discography is short but all this makes it even more satisfying to enjoy his really good album Flew Out from Birth jest jeszcze bardziej satysfakcjonujące.
The Japanese artist creates mostly instrumental music that, however, is still closest to dream pop. At first it's filled with bright, optimist but also subtle sounds. Due to that (and the presence of glockenspill-like sounds), it recalls the works of the British Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam. And when the vocals appear, there's absolutely no doubts that we deal with dream pop - dispersed, not very clear, sounding rather sad than ecstatic.
And it fits the change in the album's tone as as soon as from Lakeside it turns more melancholic and thoughtful. Sometimes this lead to some good acoustic noise (Gleam), sometimes to instrumental ambient (Osmosis), and even to a neoclassical ballad (Dreary). And finally, to the great, combining all of this track called Ridgeline. A really solid album.
Flew Out from Birth costs whatever you want to pay.
Check: Ridgeline
Country: Japan
Genre: acoustic dream pop
