Leftfield J-pop, '70s influenced rock and shadowy R&B: Our favorite albums of 2014 (so far)In his Strange Boutique column last week, Ian Martin wrote about the need for a canon in Japanese music in order for newcomers to the scene — especially those writing about it — to gain some context into what is being released. Without a canon, non-Japanese journalists who write about Japanese musicians can fall into the trap of labeling a group such as Babymetal "whacky," when there are much deep
