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"Losing Myself" is not my favorite song off of Bonnie Pink’s album, Present. That distinction would go to "April Shower ~Yo-gatsu no Arashi~".

But I’ve pimped "April Shower" to a lot of people over the years, and I feel doing so again is just, well, lazy. So I’m picking another track to feature.

Thing is, just about any track from this album would be suitable for the spotlight. Present is one of the strongest albums from Bonnie Pink’s major label career. (I won’t go so far to say her entire career, since I’m not at all acquainted with her Pony Canyon phase.)

Present was the follow-up to the scattershot Just a Girl. Bonnie is a prolific recording artist, and sometimes, the fast turnaround of her albums leaves me concerned.

But after the release of Just a Girl in 2001, Bonnie took a different creative route the following year, collaborating with R&B artists such as Verbal from m-flo. When she returned in 2003 with Present, her folk-rock songs made a little more room for some dance floor influence.

"Losing Myself" establishes the aesthetic for the album, a nice balance of singer-songwriter introspection and pop appeal.

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