There’s nods to his past and also a focus on exploring the future – something he’s balanced beautifully for the last 50 plus years. It results in one of the most slight and gorgeous albums of his incredible genre hopping career

By the time you softly float out of Hosono’s world on the fairground closer ‘Anemo Wheel’ you’ll find yourself desperately flicking back to the first track, to play the album again and get a better understanding of the textural approach

On his 23rd solo album, the 79-year-old musician—and lone surviving member of Yellow Magic Orchestra—is in a reflective mood, reworking curios from his catalog in an intimate, contemplative fashion

Borrowing from fifties doo-wop, freak folk, bossa nova, Beethoven, Liszt, parts of the Japanese musician's new LP sound like hollow echoes of his rich discography. But the music remains a wonderful soothing trip into his worlds

There’s more going on in Yours Sincerely than an attractive recapitulation of earlier themes. The sheer comfort of the sound is what the album is really about, and also, the key to what is going on under its delightful surfaces

Unpredictable and utterly beguiling, the septuagenarian beloved by Harry Styles brings a hint of mischief to his innocently charming songs

Ingenuousness bordering on whimsicality is certainly the album's hallmark. Print edition only

His intelligence and Satie-like lightness of touch prevent any excess o whimsy even when the results are as peculiar as "M For Mandala", which resembles a Kraftwerk song reimagined for a gamelan ensemble. Print edition onlyunc