Five Nights With Shugo Tokumaru

Hometown: Tokyo Album: Exit For fans of: Sigur Rós, Andrew Bird, The Beatles Tokyo singer/songwriter Shugo Tokumaru’s dazzling third album, Exit, features lyrics based on dreams he’s had, somnambulant wanderings brought to life by his whimsical musicality. (More than 50 instruments appear on the record, and he played almost all of them.) Though we’re fuzzy on the details—Tokumaru sings mostly in Japanese, with flourishes of endearingly wobbly English sprinkled throughout—we won...

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