This is the debut album and masterpiece of Makoto Matsushita, one of the iconic icons of the CITY POP boom.
This is a perfect POP album that sublimated the Western music (East Coast AOR) of the time to perfection.
Matsushita, who had exhausted POPS with this album released in 1981, went on to change his sound far away from CITY POP, although some POPS feeling was felt in his later albums.
Even with this in mind, the content of this album is truly wonderful.
The title track, "FIRST LIGHT," is the ultimate mid-tempo urban mellow song.