So that keeps happening to me, but the older I get I feel like I'm finding a way to not let it completely disable me. "Something little can stretch you all the way back to that moment and you're starting all over and reliving everything. "Often, when you're dealing with grief, it's kind of like you relapse," Aiko says. The youngest of five siblings, each born two years apart, Aiko was closest in age and kinship to Miyagi before his death. The autobiographical soundscape of Aiko's healing journey follows the loss of her brother, Miyagi Chilombo, to cancer in 2012, and her futile quest to replace that love with romantic relationships and vices that failed to fill the void. Several years in the making, Trip is totally unexpected. I just want to share it without it being something people are expecting." It's not something contrived or something I want to turn into this big deal. "I don't like hyping stuff up," she says. So when we talk one week prior to the unannounced release of her epic new album, it comes as no surprise that she's much more interested in easing into the big reveal rather than making a huge splash. Somewhere between pop-oriented R&B and traditional soul, the singer-songwriter floats like an ethereal voice disembodied from typical format and genre distinctions. "Oblivion is kind of like nirvana, where you become nothing and you don't have to suffer over and over again," Jhené Aiko says.
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