YOSHITOMO NARA- rare collectable! Matthew Sweet "Kimi Ga Suki Raifu" LP. (Limited red vinyl. Edition 500!) 2019 Original Pressing. Artwork by Yoshitomo Nara. Never played. Originally released on CD in Japan in 2003, as a love letter & thank you to his Japanese fans, now for the first time available in August 2019, on a Limited Edition Green Vinyl Glass Modern Long Playing Record. Recorded at home, produced, engineered & mixed by Matthew Sweet (bass, guirars & vocals) with the classic ‘Girlfriend’ era lineup of Ric Menck (drums), Greg Leisz (guitars) and the genius electric lead guitar of Television’s Richard Lloyd. The sleeve art is by renowned artist Yoshimoto Nara. In the liner notes, Sweet describes the album's title as an attempt at reverse English: "If I did it correctly, the title should seem a little strange or wrong, but still meaningful! The true definition is supposed to be a 'love you' life, one devoted to loving someone or something, even life itself!" “an excellent modern guitar pop album, filled with great hooks and harmonies and irresistible ringing six-strings” Allmusic “Kimi crackles with Girlfriend‘s energy, as Lloyd and Sweet’s guitars provide antagonistic foils as they did more than a decade before on cuts like “Tonight We Ride.” Rolling Stone Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese pop art artist known for his iconic, tall children's characters with wide-open eyes. His works, which show a mixture of Japanese and Western culture, depict feelings such as rebellion, loneliness and anger, often with a punky attitude reminiscent of manga and anime, but also highlights introspective and melancholic aspects. It uses a reduced, simple aesthetic to achieve a direct emotional impact and invites the viewer to experience the world through the perspective of an inner child Yoshitomo Nara is one of the leading Japanese contemporary artists along with Hajime Sorayama, Takashi Murakami, Yayoi Kusama and also very popular with collectors of Kaws, Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader, Javier Calleja, Hirst Damienst or Jeff Koons. His art achieves very high prices. Banksy is an urban artist like: Kaws, JR, invader, d*face, Miss Tic Basquiat, Keith Haring, vhils, blek le rat, fanakapan, ardif, hijack, Mr brainwash, speedy graphito, swoon, faith47, obey, durix, rnst, Jr, pichiavo, roamcouch, orlinski, onemizer, Goin, Martin whatson, Jef Aerosol, Duncan Jags, Zedsy, Paco pomet, Robert Rauschenberg and Damien Hirst etc