Top Five Japan Albums
(My favorite new wave band, whose small discography—five studio albums under their original name, one under a later name, one official live album, and a bunch of bootlegs and compilations—is of outsized importance to me. Here, in order of preference, are the five albums I like best.)
Tin Drum
Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Quiet Life
Oil on Canvas
Rain Tree Crow (as Rain Tree Crow)
— November 24, 2020