Album · 1999 · 20 Songs.

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Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1976–1986 is a 2019 compilation album. The album was released by Light in the Attic Records on May 3, 2019, as the third part of their Japan Archival Series, starting with Even a Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969–1973. Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1976–1986 was part of the American Light in the Attic Records labels reissuing of Japanese music.

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That latter period of Hosono’s career inspired Pacific Breeze’s best track, the synthpop squirmer Sports Men. Originally found on 1982’s Philharmony, Hosono’s first solo album following YMO’s rise, the song is fueled by a vaguely flute-y sample that loops in an endless cheerful tootle and the musician’s own sneering anxieties over not being fit enough for a very sporty crush. It’s the one moment on Pacific Breeze where the cracks of the city pop fantasy really start to show-the dark side of a genre associated with, essentially, yuppies in Tokyo. Pacific Breeze works best as a broad yet nuanced introduction to both Hosono’s mid-career and city pop as a whole.