M87

M87 arrives with the controlled grandeur of something launched into space — a theme written for the 2022 film Shin Ultraman, and every production choice honors that cosmic scale without sacrificing human intimacy. The track opens with distorted guitar that sounds almost mechanically sentient, Yonezu's production fusing orchestral weight with electronic textures in a way that suggests the coexistence of the enormous and the personal. His vocal here is among his most committed: straining at the upper registers with a quality that reads less as effort than as urgency, the voice of someone transmitting across impossible distances. M87 is the designation of the first black hole ever photographed, and the song carries that reference into its emotional DNA — the irresistible pull of something immense and unknowable. Lyrically, Yonezu works within themes of heroism reframed as choice rather than destiny, the ordinary individual facing extraordinary stakes. The bridge opens into a passage of almost unbearable lightness before the final chorus returns with renewed force. Culturally, it participates in the long Japanese tokusatsu tradition while transcending mere tie-in status — this is music that earns its ambition. Ideal listening: headphones, full volume, some moment when you need to feel that something enormous is also, somehow, on your side.