Sensuous, the new full-length album from Cornelius, detonates on impact with the listener's consciousness. It's a bold and nearly infinite record, a twisting Mobius strip weaving simulation into reality and back again.

It is, in a word, genius.

Arriving stateside through Los Angeles based Everloving Records, Sensuous resists all traditional modes of classification. Yet Cornelius (aka Keigo Oyamada) has always marched to the beat of a different drum machine, even in his wildly eclectic habitat of Tokyo, Japan. Since exploding onto the scene in 1997, Cornelius has dazed and amused fans worldwide with his freeform pop aesthetic and playful sense of humor.

It's a disciplined sound that's also wildly experimental, bursting with electronic pulsewaves, wood-grain acoustics, minimalist interludes and raw guitar freakouts. The album's circular design reminds us that it's all a dream, a ruse, a sensuous, artificial paradise modeled on the natural, curated by the man who knows the peaks and valleys of our contemporary emotional landscape as much as any composer alive: Cornelius, aka Keigo Oyamada, the visionary postpunk sound designer of the bright new age.

Watch the videos for "Fit Song," "Gum (live)," and "Beep It."

Download the mp3 of "Gum"

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