Pretty ambient folky stuff on the happier side of things - a bit of midway between Gia Margaret's second album, a happy version of Sea Oleena, with maybe a sprinkle of Ichiko Aoba's latest album in terms of vibes. Although it doesn't vary enough to excite me on the whole record, on individual tracks the vox are very pretty, though slightly generically pretty in places. The somewhat clumsy intro on 4 is an example. That being said almost every track that starts in a not so interesting way does develop ideas later on, just like the controlled rhythmic mismatch around 1:10 on 4. And most tracks start very prettily and remain good, 6 being a good example with a great pretty and inspiring intro that continues into nice ambient experimentation. I will say I find the generic electronic percussions that feature on a couple tracks a bit cheap and not fitting well, and 8 feels quite unnecessary as a track, dropping this a point, but I could see myself revisiting this and liking it more. I will definitely come back to a few selected tracks at any rate. 3.5
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