1981 · THE LISTENING ROOM
Summer Sunset
Jin Kirigaya
The review
“Summer Sunset” is built around the afterglow rather than the heat of the day. Jin Kirigaya sings with an understated ease, while the arrangement carries the clean, open air of a West Coast-influenced Japanese studio session.
The melody lingers without leaning too hard on nostalgia. Paired with “Toi Hi no Tokimeki,” it makes a compact summer record whose best moment arrives when the light is already fading.
Sides
- A · Toi Hi no Tokimeki
- B · Summer Sunset
Original single
Alfa · ALR-729
Coupled with
Toi Hi no Tokimeki