★Ghostly International

With Yours Sincerely, Haruomi Hosono turns a lifetime of musical wandering toward compassion, memory and the unknown. Tender psych-folk and bubbling avant-pop frame his first new collection in seven years, while female voices open fresh emotional territory. Rather than settling into legacy, he makes curiosity the engine of a quietly adventurous renewal.

One of the very finest groups to emerge from the American cassette scene of the mid aughts, Emeralds released Solar Bridge in 2008 as their first run-in with a proper, formal album release.

Cleveland neo-kosmische outfit Emeralds broke free of the underground in 2010 with the hallucinatory Editions Mego-released 'Does it Look Like I'm Here?', now been remastered and bumped up with seven additional tracks, including two Daphne remixes.