Cornelius Releases New Album "Refractions" Featuring Sean Ono Lennon, Announces Japan and UK Tour

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Cornelius Launches New Album With Sean Ono Lennon Collaboration

Keigo Oyamada has also lined up dates in Japan and England behind Refractions By Jazz Monroe May 27, 2026 Save this story Save this story

A month after returning with a Yōsui Inoue cover and news of a new label deal, Cornelius has announced his Eat Your Own Ears debut, Refractions . The Japanese composer and songwriter recruited guests including his Bad Advice/Mind Train collaborator Arto Lindsay , former Yura Yura Teikoku guitarist Shintaro Sakamoto , Bid from the British punk band the Monochrome Set, and Sean Ono Lennon . Listen to the Lennon-featured “Aeons” below and scroll down to see Cornelius’ tour dates in Japan and London. The album arrives on August 19.

Ono Lennon has history with Cornelius, having invited him to join an iteration of his mother’s Plastic Ono Band in years past. Cornelius said of the new collaboration, “As the world and my surroundings changed at an intense speed, I think all of that inevitably shaped this work. Rather than expressing these ideas directly, I approached them structurally—exploring continuity, transformation, and multiple coexisting states within a single, uninterrupted flow of time.”

Ono Lennon added, “I’m always honoured to work with Keigo, he’s one of my favourite humans on the Earth Planet!”

Refractions : 01 Refractions 02 まざらない / Mazaranai [ft. Shintaro Sakamoto] 03 You Make Me Cyborg [ft. Bid from the Monochrome Set] 04 Aeons [ft. Sean Ono Lennon] 05 Mirrors 06 Bad Advice [ft. Arto Lindsay] 07 夢寝⾒ / Yumenemi 08 Twisting & Glistening 09 溶解線 / Dissolving Line

Cornelius: 09-10 Yokohama, Japan - KT Zepp Yokohama 09-12 Tokyo, Japan - Club Quattro 09-13 Fukuoka, Japan - Zepp Fukuoka 09-19 Sapporo, Japan - Zepp Sapporo 09-22 Nagoya, Japan - Zepp Nagoya 09-23 Osaka, Japan - Zepp Namba 09-26 Sendai, Japan - Sendai PIT 10-02 Tokyo, Japan - Zepp Haneda 10-03 Tokyo, Japan - Zepp Haneda 10-06 Tokyo, Japan - Zepp Shinjuku (Tokyo) 06-19-27 London, England - Barbican

_Originally reported by [Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/news/cornelius-launches-new-album-with-sean-ono-lennon-collaboration/)._