Aerial Days is full of tiny shimmering moments of beauty.

Every single note, melody, and beat on So This Is Goodbye has been streamlined and polished as much as possible.

Swing Girls is far better than it frankly has any right to be, thanks to the sheer amount of fun, enthusiasm, and aplomb it contains.

I’ve heard most of the songs on here before, countless times. But I had never heard them like this, in such a sublime context.

Richter’s music is perfectly suited to the themes of loss, nostalgia, and alienation that permeate Haruki Murakami’s work.