- How To Live With a Phantom · 2011
- How To Live With a Phantom · 2011
- How To Live With a Phantom · 2011
- Don't Know What's Normal - Single · 2013
- How To Live With a Phantom · 2011
- Disco Is / Disco Is / Syunsuke Ono - Single · 2016
- You Can Be a Robot, Too (feat. Kamome Jido Gassyodan) - Single · 2014
- You Can Be a Robot, Too (feat. Kamome Jido Gassyodan) - Single · 2014
- How To Live With a Phantom · 2011
- The Feeling Of Love / Obscure Nightclub - Single · 2020
- By Swallow Season / Don't Tinker With History - Single · 2020
- Like a Fable · 2022
- Don't Know What's Normal - Single · 2013
Albums
- 2022
- 2016
- 2014
Singles & EPs
About Shintaro Sakamoto
As a solo artist, Shintaro Sakamoto draws from breezy soft rock, disco, reggae, and bossa nova -- a far cry from the towering psych-rock of his former band Yura Yura Teikoku. Over the course of two decades, the Tokyo-based trio became a household name in Japan, but when they disbanded in 2010, the singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter/designer was ready for a change. His 2012 debut album, How to Live with a Phantom, offered just that, blending together sophisticated pop sounds from around the world with a hyperreal clarity that echoed the genre-mashing playfulness of the Shibuya-kei movement as well as Sakamoto's own psychedelic roots. On later albums, Sakamoto used the fundamentals of his style -- a summery vibe, slippery steel guitars -- to create distinct moods ranging from the deceptively mellow post-apocalyptic commentary of 2014's Let's Dance Raw to the nostalgic reflections of 2022's Like a Fable.
- HOMETOWN
- Osaka, Japan
- BORN
- 9 September 1967
- GENRE
- Rock