SHINTARO SAKAMOTO - HOW TO LIVE WITH A PHANTOM Vinyl LP

From as objective a perspective as I can provide, I have to say that Other Music Recording Co's inaugural full-length release is quite a doozy. Late in 2011, we were collectively blown away by the solo debut of Shintaro Sakamoto, former frontman for Tokyo's Yura Yura Teikoku. That group was a powerhouse of contemporary psychedelic rock who gave over twenty years of service (going from a fiercely underground band at the U.F.O. Club, to chart-topping festival headliner and major label artist in Japan), and when they announced their dissolution in 2009, it was unsure where the trio's members would turn up next. When we first brought in import copies of Sakmoto's debut (self-released in Japan), it not only knocked my socks off, but also those of damn near every other employee at the shop regardless of their usual listening habits, to the point that one month's Staff Recommendations list posted on the wall had a header that read "Other Music's 'We Love Shintaro Sakamoto' Picks." Well, we lo