Nailing down every single facet is nigh impossible as a bevy of instruments fill the space, never allowing for a hint of silence to break through. Per the usual, it’s a quirky, fun, and sweetly produced mixture of Tokumaru’s folk and pop sensibilities a magical amalgam that sounds bigger than anything he’s done before. Each of the album's 15 tracks features an average of 20 instruments with hundreds of recorded tracks. What that entails is quite a lot, actually, as the artist crams in a mind boggling amount of sights and sounds into the record. In Focus?, for the initiated, is a Shugo Tokumaru record through and through. Luckily, that place is exactly where he belongs. Instead, the Japanese songwriter has tinkered a bit with the mechanics of his work, but ultimately has stayed exactly where he has always been. No grand changes in direction or bold uncharacteristic statements appear anywhere in his discography. Throughout his career, Tokumaru has essentially remained in a stasis. Oddly enough, this correlates to Shugo Tokumaru and his approach to the lovely music he creates. There’s change, for sure, but nothing in the way of taking the organism outside of its established niche. There is a principal in biology called the “Red Queen Hypothesis” that states that something could potentially evolve to maintain the place that it has always been. Review Summary: Yet another chance to tumble lovingly into the quirky mind of Shugo Tokumaru.
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