If you don’t listen to Japanese music, this is where you begin. Tokyo Jihen (Tokyo Incidents) fuses jazz and rock together to create some of the most dynamic melodies and arrangements with some killer spurts of guitar. The genius behind this band lies purely within its lead singer, Shiina Ringo, whose depth of solo work is something you must delve into if this song hooks you at all. “Sounan” needs no further introduction, other than that it’s one of the best representations of excellent Japanese music beyond all that idol pop permeating the airwaves.
