Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Genre: Electronic Label: Plastic & Sounds Release Date: 2026 Shinichi Atobe’s arresting house and techno beams with inimitable candor, built from bright, phlegmatic loops that run on an eccentric internal logic. Now a quarter century into a career largely characterized by mystique and a seeming avoidance of the public eye, Atobe has spent the better part of the 2020s slowly opening up, with some bemusement. His laconic interview with Tone Glow in 2024—most noteworthy for being the first time anyone had asked the alleged recluse to go on the record—revealed an artist with little interest in extended introspection or narrativization beyond a few quaint details. (His favorite hobby? “Sleeping.”) Accordingly, Atobe’s sound has evolved laterally over the course of the decade, reupholstering the artist’s quirks into a series of mutually reminiscent albums that stand apart from one another as much for their placid, eerie cover photos as they do for their content.…