J-pop / singer-songwriter youth rock gets a full heart-on-sleeve voltage boost as AKASAKI releases 離さないでいて / Don’t Leave Me.” The track feels like a coming-of-age guitar solo trapped inside a school-photo album: bright, aching, nostalgic, and dangerously close to making your inner teenager stage-dive into memory lane. Built as the second advance single from the upcoming album last YOUNG, the song turns youthful longing into a melodic power-up item, with AKASAKI sounding like he is speedrunning the final boss fight of adolescence.
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