![]() ![]() I felt at that point as if she sang beyond me. Aiko repeats I’m on my way in the final song of the album. I once listened to Trip on a ride back from college on new car speakers. But the experience of the album itself is not rigid. I have often explained my fascination with this album as a structural one, that songs cannot stand alone to encompass the further end of the album previously listed by Pitchfork, Variety, and Aiko herself: a map of love against, through, and within tragedy. ![]() Boundaries between songs remain undefined. Lyrics stand simply with little word play. It addresses three figures through a contextual “you” - Aiko’s late brother Miyago, her daughter Namiko, and her boyfriend Big Sean. The work is part-aria, part-monologue, part-diary. I listened to the album first in late January after second-hand suggestion - and in some ways, like trauma, I have never since not replayed it. A friend told me Jhené Aiko’s Trip sounded like falling in love. ![]()
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