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88
While remaining delicate throughout. Windswept Adan is a landscape, an aquatic world to be lost within, and one from which you’ll scarcely want to emerge.
80
On Windswept Adan, Aoba expands her repertoire of sound and brings collaborators into her vision, yet she still holds on to the wistful imagination that allows her to dream up private universes.
80
Aoba couches dreamy retro pastiche in contemporary electro- ambient production with effortless finesse. Not a note is wasted here.
80
Aoba's hushed voice makes for an immersive meld of indie-folk, classical and jazz.
80
Windswept Adan demonstrates universal emotions, reflections on growth and maturing through measured progress. It speaks, and is heard, without applying any undue force.
80
This is minimalistic and melodic music at its finest.
78
This record holds up on its own terms, and it’s pretty enough to do well on anyone else’s.
70
As I listen to Windswept Adan for what is probably the eighth or ninth time, it feels like a record worlds away from the one I first listened to in front of the television on my tatty settee.
60
It’s a remarkable feat of musical world-building that will pull you back to Adan’s shores again and again.
#1 of my Top 50 Albums of 2020: https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/chode/list/29961/chodes-top-50-albums-of-2020/
Sealed away in the deepest depths of a lost forest, near the shore of the lustrous ocean gleaming from the rays of the sun, behind a dimly lit village on the oceanic coast of Indonesia, there is an album. One of wondrous magic and alluring serenity. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with 'Windswept Adan.'
Whether it’s her stellar and incredibly minimalistic live record ... read more
Do you ever feel a sense of emptiness in your life? Do you ever need something to comfort you? Do you ever feel like you lack something? Is there ever a time you just want to stop trying?
These are just some questions I ask myself all the time, but listening to アダンの風 (Windswept Adan) made me forget it all.
The elegant instrumentation matched with the heavenly vocals on this new project gives me a sense of hope and safety. Everything about this just makes me feel great. Listening to ... read more
"Winderwept Adan" appeals to all our 5 senses in a metaphorical way. The hearing and the taste to realize that this charming and bewitching masterpiece is simply delicious to browse through. The sight and smell that will allow you to visit each room of this adventure thanks to your imagination, multiple images and memories that run deep inside you. The touch in order to enjoy all the emotions that emerge, which will come to embrace you, pinch you when necessary, to realize how much ... read more
60 -> 80
One of the most beautiful and purest sounds that my JBL Tune 510BT headphones delivered to my ears. When i heard this album for the first time when it came out i thought it was just okay, as at that time ambient music was in my opinion just NPC sounds to put white people to sleep. I love it.
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Track List
| 1 | Prologue 4:55 | 90 |
| 2 | Pilgrimage 3:48 | 94 |
| 3 | Porcelain 4:29 | 93 |
| 4 | 帆衣 1:58 | 85 |
| 5 | Easter Lily 3:16 | 90 |
| 6 | Parfum d'étoiles 2:52 | 91 |
| 7 | 霧鳴島 1:27 | 85 |
| 8 | Sagu Palm's Song 3:57 | 93 |
| 9 | chinuhaji 1:52 | 85 |
| 10 | 血の風 3:47 | 89 |
| 11 | Hagupit 2:58 | 91 |
| 12 | Dawn in the Adan 4:45 | 97 |
| 13 | ohayashi 3:44 | 92 |
| 14 | アダンの島の誕生祭 6:07 | 93 |
Total Length: 50 minutes
Year End Lists
| #5 | / | The Needle Drop |
| #10 | / | Sputnikmusic |
| #18 | / | Beats Per Minute |
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Added on: October 30, 2020