About a month ago, i stumbled upon what may end up being my favorite album of 2023...and it came out 29 years ago. I'm talking about "Heavenly Persona," the 1994 album from Japanese artist Shizuka. The whole record has a noisy, psych and space tinged shoegaze thing going on, but the standout is the nearly 10-minute lament, "Plan for Solitude." The track somberly floats around like some lost Mazzy Star track before the wailing, guitar freakout hits at the end, an emotional explosion of sound and noise. And while i have no idea what is being sung (it's in Japanese), the melancholy tone of the song just floors me. Sadly, vocalist Shizuka Miura passed away in 2010, but the music lives on. Check it out below, our Daily Jam. And if you dig it, you can snag the reissue that dropped earlier this year here from Black Editions.
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