A Long Vacation was Japan's best-selling album of 1981 and one of the best-selling Japanese albums ever — over a million copies on its way to becoming a national institution. Eiichi Ohtaki drew on Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Brian Wilson's studio perfectionism, and a deep love of American pop to create something entirely Japanese: lush, immaculate, nostalgic. Kimi wa Tennen Shoku — You Are A Natural Colour — is its opening statement, a song of such uncomplicated warmth that it has never stopped sounding like a beginning.
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