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Ryuichi Sakamoto’s first solo album in five years—and first big project since his work on the Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack for The Revenant—is a delicate, beautiful, and often unpredictable piece of work. Juxtaposing familiar musical sounds (Bach-like organ processions, twinkling webs of synthesizers) with nonmusical ones (static, cicadas, the sound of feet crunching across leaves, or maybe glass), and soothing harmony with stark discord, Sakamoto creates a quietly dramatic world where disparate sonic information comes together by what seems like accident—just before it gracefully slides apart.