Lonely Island Artist (2025)

Lonely Island Artist (2025) is a conceptual Chronicle Album independently released by Yotsuba Choco in 2025. With psychology, society, humanity, and emotion as its quiet axes, the work weaves together existentialism, absurdism, and her own philosophy of "optimistic decadence," gently yet sincerely questioning the abyss of existence and the folds of the human heart.

At its center lies Freud's "Ego" — and the album vividly portrays the many faces of the Ego.

Taoist philosophy quietly dissolves into the music, encouraging listeners to laugh through pain, sing joy even in wounds, and freely live as "a self without a center" and "a self without answers" — even beneath the weight of life's pressures.

Every choice is a new form of freedom. Even in the midst of death and oppression, we can still dance. Through the philosophy of Dasein and the Taoist freedom of following one's nature, the album casts the flowing beauty of life gently into the world. Yotsuba Choco, through her deep exploration of Taoist thought and her layered, intricate arrangements, brings the breath of free existence to full, vivid bloom within this album. "The form that drifts in the high tide — it is the lion's mane jellyfish." The festival and frenzy of the lonely island drift endlessly upon the sea, quietly continuing from all our "non-central" places toward eternity.