Mellow Waves

Returning to his long-running solo act, the Japanese producer Keigo Oyamada aims for the glowing emotional core of his playful, retro-futuristic aesthetic.

Mellow Waves is the sound of an artist reaching a conclusion, one that is content with its place in music history as it is hopeful of the future.

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Mellow Waves

The master of headphone symphonies returns with his best album since 1997's Fantasma. Keigo Oyamada's Cornelius continues the Shibuya-Kei ethos of pastiche mundi on Waves.

Photo: Masayoshi.

'Mellow Waves' by Cornelius, album review by Beth Andralojc. The full-length is now out via Rostrum Records.