First Listen: Cornelius, 'Mellow Waves'
Cornelius makes some of the coolest music in the world. In the Japanese musician's first album in 11 years, his plunderphonic neon-psychedelia turns meditative.
makes some of the coolest music in the world, a cosmopolitan bricolage of Japanese pop music that is neither J-pop or Western Top 40 — just a long drag and exhale of plunderphonic neon-psychedelia that sounds like nothing else. In the 1990s, Keigo Oyamada — better known by his stage name Cornelius and 's lushly orchestrated pop music. When he went solo as Cornelius, albums like , and expanded our consciousness sundae with an impossibly incandescent cherry on top.
