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I only recently started listening to albums in full and still do it very rarely, so for the very special occasion of participating in the #adamalbumspiritday , I decided to listen to Have I Lost My Magic? by Swiss artist To Athena and offer my humble thoughts as a very inexperienced album reviewer. The album has twelve songs, four in Swiss German and the rest in English and to me it feels like we’re accompanying her through a process of introspection, slowly uncovering old fears and patterns and finding different ways to deal with them. It starts with the title track, Have I Lost My Magic?, where she seems to have lost herself trying to please everyone around her, “looking for myself in other people’s eyes” and trying to avoid disappointment. Ready feels like the first hopeful glimpse of change, where even allowing herself to be “the unreliable one” becomes something courageous. But that hope doesn’t suddenly make everything better. …