Sen Morimoto
Time Is On Your Side
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Expected Release Date: October 23, 2026
Sen Morimoto
Time Is On Your Side
Purchase of pre-sale items will not ship until on or about the release date. All items purchased with a pre-sale item will ship on or around the date of the release of the pre-sale item.
Expected Release Date: October 23, 2026
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD:
Digital download of lossless audio and artwork direct from the Sooper Store.
LIMITED EDITION 12" VINYL (JUPITER SWIRL):
First Pressing Exclusive Jupiter Swirl Vinyl edition. Limited 500 copies. Shrink-wrapped with a hype sticker. Manufactured at Gotta Groove Records in the USA.
CD:
Digipak CD. 4-panel Digipak with printed disc face. Shrink-wrapped.
The 4th LP from Sen Morimoto.
Chicago alt-jazz polymath Sen Morimoto returns for their fourth LP Time Is On Your Side, out October 23rd on their own label, Sooper Records. Sen’s influences timehop from ‘70s pop, folk and jazz, to ‘90s hip-hop, to modern indie and everything in between. Vintage drum machines back up rootsy guitars and lush strings, emphasizing Sen’s nostalgic and heartfelt lyricism, like echoes of a childhood memory, distorted by time.
Sen is a Japanese-American multi-disciplinary artist, and prolific producer in the Chicago and Tokyo alt-pop, jazz and rap landscapes. From the jazz-rap of their debut Cannonball!, to the electro-pop of their self-titled sophomore album, to the political prog-jazz fusion of their third LP Diagnosis, Sen’s post-genre output remains reliably unpredictable.
With another left turn, Time Is On Your Side dials in a slow-burning groove that brings Morimoto’s timeless and personal songwriting to center stage. Lyrically, Time is an antidote to the ever-accelerating pace of the doom-scroll era. “I’m not fighting time anymore,” Sen says, “I treat it as an ingredient. Some of these songs only needed a pinch - a couple of improvised takes. Others sat for years, like wine in a barrel, until they became equal parts of my past and future. My hope is that it could inspire the freedom to slow down.”
The visual accompaniments to Time Is On Your Side were made entirely by Sen, from the album cover art to the self-directed music videos. The album features a crew of Chicago musicians, all members of Sen’s live band, Kaina Castillo, Ryan Person, Elijah Bradford and Brok Mende. The resulting universe of Time Is On Your Side, is viscerally intimate, each facet of its presentation hand-made by Morimoto and their tight-knit Chicago community.
All Songs Written and Arranged by Sen Morimoto
Produced by Sen Morimoto, Brok Mende, Kaina Castillo
Recorded at Friends of Friends Recording and at Home
Mixed by Sen Morimoto
Mastered by Brok Mende
Drums performed by Ryan Person on Flashback, Overthinker, Lucky Strike, The Devil, and I Saw You
Electric Guitar performed by Elijah Bradford on Overthinker, Lucky Strike, The Devil and I Saw You
Additional Vocals performed by Kaina Castillo on Leave It All Behind, Flashback, Overthinker, Chewing Gum, Moves like A Drunk, The Devil, and Time Is On Your Side
All remaining instruments and vocals performed by Sen Morimoto
Artwork by Sen Morimoto
Layout and Design by Izzi Vasquez
