Shugo Tokumaru's music is a dream come true — literally.

"I couldn't write lyrics, so I came up with the idea of using phrases from a dream diary I was keeping," explains the acclaimed multi- instrumentalist singer-songwriter. Since the age of 14 (he's 30 now), Tokumaru has kept a small notepad by his bed. And when he is able to recall them he fervently scribbles his dreams down, building up a library of surreal subject matter to inform his psych-edged pop sound.

"Even now, all my lyrics come from my dream book," he elaborates. "It's quite hard to write down your dreams, but you get used to it if you do it every day. Sometimes I can't put a dream into words, so I spend a long time thinking about it or sometimes just give up."