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| 4.5 superb | Scornfyre | October 4th 22 |
I find it pretty nutty how I found out about her from a f@#$ing reddit post. What a beautiful album. Gives me warm fuzzy depression somehow.
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| 4.0 excellent | didnt ask to be staff, was made staff anyway, then got demoted for not doing staff stuff | October 28th 21 |
Just at the second Ichiko Aoba soundoff and I already find myself struggling for proper words. I'll leave well-structured critiques for the master pen craftsmen; for me her music seems a little immune to heavy criticism. Her style is that of absolute tranquility that - not that I complain - mostly repeats itself album to album and is made different through only the subtlest of changes. So picking apart her albums is quite the task, especially given that her songs could follow one another in a random pattern and I wouldn barely notice that it is not one continuous album that I am listening to. So there, take your eternal 4 for excellence, you beast of beauty.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | October 2nd 20 |
Contrary to popular opinion (hallo johnnyofthedex) this is positively not my fave Ichiko album so far. It ventures into more diverse directions, and the experimentation is very successful, but it just feels like there is a lot of downtime and an overall lack of coherent album identity. Beside the stylistic ventures which I pretty much thoroughly enjoyed, the bulk of the record is a bit simpler than her past work, with guitar parts that are often less intricate. It's pretty, it's fragile, but it lacks this magical uniqueness that I found elsewhere in her discog. 1 is very cute until its melancholic conclusion, transitioning into the simple but pretty and sadgirl 2. 3 is the first to show signs of new elements to her sound with cool guitar at 2:45 and some mildly dissonant stuff at 6:40, which in a vacuum I find interesting and enjoyed, but whose appropriateness within the album I rather question. 4 is again nice but feels a bit empty although again I appreciate the sonic ventures. 5 is very cute again, while 6 offers cool explorations and darker vibes with same comments as before. 7-8 are both pretty and moving but again rather minimalistic tracks. I'm just less enchanted by this style than I am with her cascading strumming of the earlier days. Will have to recheck in better conditions though, this is still a lovely album with lots of stuff to dig and explore further. 3.7
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| 4.1 excellent | Erwann S. EMERITUS | November 21st 19 |
Oh isn't it pretty and delicate. Idk how she does it but it sounds both warm and melancholic. The kind of album for which it doesn't matter if you don't understand what's said. This is fragility incarnate. How calming and captivating this is. This is even more impressive knowing the music is both devoid of effects and dynamically engaging. A truly paradoxical record, that could pass as mere folk background music if you don't pay attention to it, while also being an album that slowly reveals itself as the listener gets lost into it.
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| 4.5 superb | Santet | August 27th 25 |
| 3.0 good | Corney | December 3rd 24 |
| 3.0 good | doofy | September 20th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Djang0 | March 7th 24 |
| 5.0 classic | bSmith | November 13th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Suyan | October 11th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | DadKungFu EMERITUS | October 4th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Pangea | October 12th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | bnest | August 6th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Gleam | August 3rd 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | JackIvy | April 24th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | sncold | February 10th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sam C. | November 15th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Pppete | November 2nd 21 |
| 3.5 great | OSEL | February 12th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Yotimi | February 5th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Polvo | January 11th 21 |
| 3.5 great | 2ool | January 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | December 19th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | jesper EMERITUS | December 12th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Lassie | December 8th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Bobshat | November 18th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Emo | November 13th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | LamboGD | October 19th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | slaterr | October 9th 20 |
| 3.0 good | fog | September 15th 20 |
| 3.5 great | jmh886 | June 16th 20 |
| 3.5 great | A.R.O. EMERITUS | October 24th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Miguee7 | October 15th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Krelkin | June 24th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Juca89 | June 6th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Lucman | May 27th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | YayoG1 | April 17th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gueero | April 10th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Alexxx | November 22nd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ramon777 | November 15th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | Elynna | August 7th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | elch21 | July 7th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Skoop | April 16th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | tyler | June 20th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | niaL | April 21st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | p4p | March 16th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rhyme | February 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | heyadam | December 12th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Tom R. EMERITUS | November 29th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thane | October 18th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | fejoob | October 1st 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Lanas | September 5th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jade | June 6th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | bmelt | June 2nd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | October 30th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Runeii | August 30th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | Vaakum | July 7th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | lou1000 | October 19th 14 |
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