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Happy End of the World is the Pizzicato 5 album, above all others. Yeah, the five by five ep is of course excellent, but this record is among the definitive late-90s shibuya-kei records from the definitive shibuya-kei act. It's chock full of that uptempo cheerfulness that one would expect to come from the bright lights of Tokyo, but it's tempered with just the right amount of lounge-cool to keep ...

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