Haroumi Hosono "Yours Sincerely" LP

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• Indie Exclusive "Mothership" Vinyl
• Yours Sincerely is a new release from Haruomi Hosono, blending mellow pop, electronic textures, and laid-back songwriting characteristic of his expansive solo catalog
• Reflects Hosono’s long-running interest in genre fusion, moving between ambient, exotica, soft rock, and electronic music with understated arrangements
• For fans of: Yellow Magic Orchestra, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shigeru Suzuki

Haroumi Hosono, the pioneering Japanese musician, producer, composer, and founding member of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Happy End, has “found his voice in a late career renaissance," writes The Wire. His five-decade legacy continues to grow and attract new fans, and has been cited by an acclaimed list of artists, including Mac DeMarco, Cameron Winter, Ginger Root, Vampire Weekend, and Harry Styles. Shaped by mid-century American music, Hosono’s work now reverberates back through a new generation of Western artists—a remarkable circular exchange.

Yours Sincerely, his 23rd studio album and first collection of new music in over seven years, finds Hosono ever-pushing his exploratory songcraft: “I am now 78 years old, but from here on, I feel a growing curiosity toward the unknown music that my new self will create, while also embracing the music of my former self—as if I now carry two musical worlds within me.” Across arrangements that span tender psych-folk and bubbling avant pop, Hosono contemplates the concept of a maternal force that envelops the Earth, “humanity’s understanding of the unconditional love possessed by those who give us life,” he says. Songs tap into a collective current, engaging the “deeply buried instincts maternal compassion and mercy, things we rarely engage with in our daily lives.”