Ichiko Aoba's seventh studio album 'Windswept Adan', the first on her self-founded label Hermine, is a monumental spectacle to experience within an otherwise-disappointing year of music. In a deeply troubled world, rife with systemic issues and hate from the ground up during a turbulent era of our lives resulting from a silent killer, the existence of Aoba is one of the very few instances in life where we ought to be universally thankful for. That, someone across the Pacific Ocean, just on the ...
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