PORTRAIT

An almost life-size portrait just before her break, anticipating the 'All By Myself' that followed her return. Above all, B4's comfortable, restrained arrangement for lyrics holding a private memory is like a tide caressing the cheek. Amid side B, where Tatsuro had already written 'Natsu no Koibito' and 'Blue Horizon,' this song is dense and winsome, yet maintains a crisp guitar-cutting and monochrome, cool R&B feeling. Its balance of black and white is remarkable.