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Kenshi Yonezu Talks New Album ‘LOST CORNER’ & Importance of Having Things that Can’t be Taken Away: Interview

Kenshi Yonezu dropped his highly anticipated new album LOST CORNER this month. Billboard Japan spoke with him.

The J-pop hitmaker’s latest project is a tour de force arriving four years after his previous album STRAY SHEEP, packed with 20 tracks including ten high-profile tie-ins such as “Chikyugi – Spinning Globe,” the theme song of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated movie The Boy and the Heron. The “KICK BACK” artist described his current headspace after releasing the epic set as being “bright,” and this outlook seems to symbolize the style of the album in its entirety. So when my album turned out to have 11 existing songs on it, the only way I could think of to resolve my main concern was to simply increase the number of tracks, an idea even a fool could come up with.

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