After crashing loudly onto American shores with the album “PUNK,” in 2019, the Japanese band CHAI returns with the mellower follow-up “WINK.” The quartet—the twins Mana (lead vocals, keys) and Kana (guitar), the drummer Yuna, and the bassist and lyricist Yuuki—have reimagined their songcraft for cozy dance music. With their creative process reduced to Zoom and phone calls, they traded in their maximalist pop for a more groove-friendly sound, inverting the CHAI formula to great effect.
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