Left Ear parade an obscure Japanese beauty with Twin Cosmos dichotomous 1982 debut cleft between the siblings’ takes on spacey lysergic pop and DIY homespun outsider music comparable with everyone from Brian Wilson and Panda Bear, to Lou Reed and Ariel Pink.

The music of fraternal twins, Morohito & Yasuhito Ito is a singular proposition from any angle. Pairing one side of harmonised, self-built synths and starry-eyed songcraft by Morohito, which the label allude to “something that Brian Wilson might have created in the early 1980’s, after visiting Brazil and learning Japanese”, with Yashuhito’s starkly contrasting, room-recorded acoustic guitar and vocal works, that they likewise compare with “Lou Reed… going down a David Lynch spiral”, the results play to a remarkable chirality of aesthetic and effectuate pulls in wildly opposing directions, but somehow just works as a curio as much as a guess-again record that will prompt heads-turned with each return. (Boomkat)

Left Ear Records LER-1030 (2022)

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