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Just over two months have passed, and musically speaking, 2025 is something I’ve explored little; the only albums that come to mind are Kadath by the Great Old Ones and the atrocious and malevolent blow from PISSGRAVE (you know I have simple tastes...).
However, after listening to Those Once Loyal and the explosive Epidemic of Violence by the legendary Demolition Hammer, it’s a delight to calm the senses with what is the first great album of this year.
The works of Ichiko Aoba, an incredibly talented young Japanese singer-songwriter, are an immersive experience in a universe of fairies and crystal, where you can roam over sunlit expanses of fragrant grass populated by luminous, docile, and cute anime creatures; an experience of sensory communion, chasing the wind that brushes past the forest, peeking beyond the path, recognizing the wonder of that Nature which, in the name of profit, the powerful continue to destroy greedily and relentlessly, sawing the branch on which humanity sits, deluding themselves that they will one day live on Mars.
A peaceful and consciously varied minimalism, a voice and a guitar, sometimes a harp and a piano; words do not do justice to this ethereal music, which I pretend flows from a pure heart, as pure as a human heart can be.
Listen to it, and if you don't like it, today the latest unmissable album by Lady Gaga was released, trust me, I heard it on TG1.
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