{"id":36764,"date":"2026-03-19T07:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/?p=36764"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:27:23","slug":"album-review-sugar-plant-one-dream-one-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/album-review-sugar-plant-one-dream-one-star\/","title":{"rendered":"New album: Sugar Plant || One Dream, One Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we went to the outermost noise side of the Japanese music universe with Guitar Wolf<\/a>, today we move far in the opposite direction with Sugar Plant<\/a>. Chinatsu Shoyama and Shin’ichi Ogawa celebrate the 30th anniversary of their band with album number eight, One Dream, One Star<\/em><\/a>. Its eight original songs refine their long-held language of drift and detail, with a newfound clarity in how stillness and motion coexist.<\/p>\n

The lyrics trace a quiet emotional arc where love, memory, and self-understanding feel inseparable from the passage of time, with a shared idea of \u200b\u200bsurrendering to life’s flow, accepting distance and uncertainty, and finding fleeting but profound unity: “Still dreaming of holding you \/\/ Still dreaming of touching you \/\/ Still dreaming of feeling you \/\/ Still dreaming of sunlit rain” (from Sunlit Rain<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Actually, it’s even more about the emotions and atmosphere evoked by the mesmerizing music and angelic vocals. This is what the definition of dream pop sounds like. A gentle meditation on connection and letting go, breathing in confusion and exhaling calm.<\/p>\n