The ongoing “city pop” revival online tends to place an emphasis on the funk and disco-indebted tunes emerging out of Bubble era Japan. Yet every bit as central to it were genres seen as far less cool in 2019 — jazz, AOR, fusion, the stuff your dad might listen to (give that dad some credit, he’s cooler than you think). Perhaps that will change — I mean Seaside Lovers is getting reissued, c’mon! — but even if it doesn’t albums like Sink In offer up as wonderful a homage to this side of throwback Japanese music as you could ask for. Producer ind_fris out of Osaka has crafted a modern-day spin on a dusty style, creating songs that slowly unfold and create calming, resort-ready backdrops with plenty of subtle shifts as they play out. Centerpiece “Wave Transition” shows this best, starting with guitar strums and the sound of waves rolling in before mutating into a squiggly electronic number featuring distorted melodica notes breezin’ by…before changing once again into a rumbling dance number topped off by gentle piano melodies. It’s built for blissing out and kicking back in both measures, and this attention to detail appears all over Sink In, from tropical hops like “Airplane Going Nowhere” to the misty minimalism of “Mean Time.” Like a lot of the best explorations of Japan’s musical past, Sink In finds a Japanese artist peering into a familiar sound and finding a new angle on it, and updating for new times rather than settling for nostalgia. Get it here, or listen below.