Grinning Cat [Skintone Edition]

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Grinning Cat confounded devotees of Sakura with a far more complex set of tracks. A landscape of ambiguous emotional resonance within an album of measured extremes. Sentimental without being schmaltzy, joyful without being saccharine, Grinning Cat sees Yokota at his most playful and experimental, channelling moments of transitory wonder and jubilation, and opening up a sonic environment in which we can romp and play. Long sought after reissue 2x12" white vinyl, printed inner with abstract of ori