Susumu Yokota - Laputa (Skintone Edition) [Beige 2x12” vinyl]

Format: 2 x 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: Lo257
UPC: 5057805952244
Release Date: 10 Apr 2026
Genre: Ambient / Experimental

- Limited edition Beige 2x12” vinyl LP.
- Housed in PMS printed inner sleeve, featuring custom fonts by No Format and spot gloss abstraction of the original album artwork. 
- Accompanied with a double sided 2-panel insert and double sided 4 panel poster.
- All sleeved in a custom PMS reverse board outer sleeve with die cut square centre panel and belly band.

a1. Rising Sun
a2. Lost Ring
a3. Gong Gong Gong
b1. Iconic Air
b2. Light of the Sun
b3. Grey Piano
b4. 23 Degrees Dream
c1. Hidden Love
c2. Trip Eden
c3. True Story
c4. Dragon Place
d1. I Am Flying
d2. Dizzy Echo
d3. Heart by Heart
d4. Hyper on Hyper
 
Laputa, a title taken from the fantastical floating island of Gulliver's Travels is aptly named as 'The album that never landed' for, apart from a limited touchdown in Japan, Laputa was never released. This mystical world is a summation of Yokota's journey so far, a complex and at times challenging work but immeasurably rewarding. Beguiling and bewitching in equal measure.

Over fifteen undulating sonic fugue states, he guides listeners round a liminal world, made up of familiar materials but formed in a way defying all laws of perspective and physics. Background murmurings give way to almost uncomfortably foregrounded chattering, and one perceived soundstage segues into another impossible tableau of sonic apparitions, some recognisable in form, but all boldly decontextualised and arranged in expertly cluttered amalgams.

Laputa's obscurity was a prime reason Lo Recordings decided on the Skintone retrospective. Falling as it did between The Boy and the Tree on The Leaf Label and our own debut of Symbol. It was something of an audio crime that the album had never been properly explored and discovered. Lo Recordings hope Laputa can now ascend to its rightful place... hovering above us.