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Released in 2002, her twenty-fourth original album overall. A rounded, natural quality runs through it, wrapping the entire album in a gentle, tender image. Track 1 is a lovely collaboration between her clear voice and the guitar duo Yamagen, who know how to bring out her singing. The simple yet warm acoustic guitar playing suits a voice full of transparency. Track 4 is marked by Takashi Numazawa's drums carving out a slightly weighty groove and Toshifumi Mori's lyrical piano riff. It feels as though even an uneasy heart might be carried away.