Tatsuro Yamashita is known as the King of City Pop, and For You is the record that earned the title. Recorded in 1982 at the height of Japan's bubble economy, it synthesised American soul, AOR, and studio perfectionism into something that sounded expensive in every dimension. Yamashita reportedly spent weeks on individual snare drum sounds. Sparkle is the album's centrepiece: a seven-minute slow build that feels simultaneously like a memory and a promise.
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