Reclaimed City Pop, Deconstructed Club Music, Wintry Hip-Hop

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Five Albums, the newsletter exclusively for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we sort through the endless churn of releases and tell you about the new records you have to hear.

This week, we’ve got an electronic album that sent Andy into a Proustian recollection set in the outskirts of a rave, a compilation that gives a new lens on Japanese city pop, an art-pop auteur who seems poised to blow up, and more.