100 Favourite Japanese albums: #051 – OZ

OZ. 100s (2005)

Sometimes, geniuses can be baffling. And Nakamura Kazuyoshi is nothing short of genius, a fact that is ably proved by OZ, the debut album from his assembled rock supergroup 100s. You’d normally expect such a hefty album (21 tracks clocking in at 70 minutes) to have saggy bits hanging off here and there but that was never going to happen with Nakamura at the helm. Psychedelic hymns rub shoulders with funereal ballads and Beatlesy anthems – sitting through OZ is a bit like accompanying Alice on an ecstasy-fuelled dive down the rabbit hole and all through Wonderland: trippy but exciting.

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