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i love CDs; i spent stupid amounts of money on them & have shelves full i like to look at & enjoy the visual art inside of
i can't think of any way i'd more prefer to purchase & collect music

but if i wanted the absolute highest audio quality i'd just download it from bandcamp.....

idk what the point tho is of anything more lossless than 320mp3 unless you're in a lifted tuned room w/ flat monitors & no AC etc running

i love CDs; i spent stupid amounts of money on them & have shelves full i like to look at & enjoy the visual art inside of
i can't think of any way i'd more prefer to purchase & collect music

but if i wanted the absolute highest audio quality i'd just download it from bandcamp.....

idk what the point tho is of anything more lossless than 320mp3 unless you're in a lifted tuned room w/ flat monitors & no AC etc running

Member leaves band  after 23 years and retires from music and instead of people lamenting that it's just a bunch of shit posts trashing him and the band. I don't get it... Well, actually I kinda do since some of you are a gimmick/act at this point. Just way too damn negative. 
 
Anyway... Surreal news because I was listening to their earlier stuff like 2 days ago and looking at their earlier photo shoots and those really young pics of them in the AISHUU booklet and thought to myself holy shit these guys have longevity.  I was appreciating how they've stuck together over the years and then I wake up to this news today. What a coincidence.
 
2020 has been wild between Kenichi leaving Merry, Ryo leaving Baroque and retiring from music, and now this latest succession and retirement... Like, what is he going to do now? I'm surprised he's leaving music entirely.
 
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d293c00d-015d-4aae-9b76-b5754c63f6d3/works
 
He composed some pretty great songs: KINSENKA, NUKEGARA, MEDIA NO JUUSEI, REQUIEM, MAE E, HOTARU etc...

i'm in love with strong flavoured spicy food, so (central) vietnamese, hunanese, & ethiopian cuisine are so far unbeatable for me~

i know literally nothing about this band yet would bet good money this is just a joke/stunt & probably one specifically targeted @ rands at that

i know literally nothing about this band yet would bet good money this is just a joke/stunt & probably one specifically targeted @ rands at that

i know literally nothing about this band yet would bet good money this is just a joke/stunt & probably one specifically targeted @ rands at that

i know literally nothing about this band yet would bet good money this is just a joke/stunt & probably one specifically targeted @ rands at that

the avoided sun is in my top-3 VK albums ever don't try it sweatie x

When they're on and firing on all cylinders, they're like the most talented vk band around and every member can play their ass off. I'm of the opinion that their concept is holding them back because it's those moments when they don't sound like something that would play in the wash room of a chinese restaurant when they're at their best. The last track from the most recent album was a great showing how they would sound without all that... you know... shit
 
 

Only NIGHTMARE could pull this shit I swear...

Gianizm REKT
(could also be like React but rekt is more fun)
(this coming to you from the same band who published The Dool)

hitsugi has the taste

At this point idgaf about Dimlim as a band or Retsu, I’m in it for the telenovela realness. 

For the most part I feel the same about the album as a whole being messy (dunno if any remainder gya would dig it), but at the same time...
 
This is probably one of the more exciting things I've listened to in a loooong time and I really want them to implement a lot of what's present here in a future release. It was not exactly the songs, but those brief "woah" moments that really made the album for me. I'd get into a groove and then there's this section of weird aural fuckery that gives me the tingles, but afterwards the track might lull out. The mixing is pretty great too, though I wonder if it's b/c I'm used to muddled cheap-kei production as of late. 
 
I have a good feeling I'll be listening to this album for at least a month.
 
Brief Notes:
The chorus of "MIST" on first listen kind of gave me レイラ/nil admirari vibes (?) "Take me out in the midnight" is the most Chon-like of the tracks, and it's super fun. "Funny world" is all over the place but it absolutely works. Sounds like it would be a killer live track. "+&-" at the beginning almost felt like an iglooghost track, but abruptly turned into a trap instrumental Beiber would use (a bit of a head scratcher.) The beginning of "for the future" sounded nu-BMTH, but the rest of the track was pretty normal. "Tick Tak" is godly, especially after 2:00. There are parts of "TO FOOL" that are a fucking trip, but then "Before it's too late" goes really heavy-handed with that nu-metal-like intro. Then it's just Sho screaming with R2-D2 getting the succ in the background and it sounds fucking goooood. "out of the darkness" starts out pretty nice and then the vocals get all sensual and whispery... then just goosebumps w/ those sub bass sections w/ bonus taser noises. "Lament" ended on a super fun note.

Here u go

If i want a best of I just have to listen the whole anima album, btw they never toped this one imo, it’s a perfect record from A to Z.
 
Iam still curious about their comeback.

this album's WEIRD but i'd rather have a few more strange ones like this than a hundred alright albums that do just fine.

not sure why the 'are they vkei or aren't they' debate is so lively when the music sounds more vkei than 鵬翼 & their looks are more vkei than 達郎's in 心のない町's PV. between this & DEZERT i'd say rather than declaring individual bands to have fallen off the vkei wagon we're seeing the early phases of another branch of this scene, like what we english-speakers call oshare/nagoya/angura/art kei. indie kei? i think it could be a thing & would love to see more of it

tbh retsu could put out a full album of SEs & i'd enjoy it - maybe that's bc i don't listen to enough actual IDM or Flying Lotus et al but either way it pauses & carries the mood of Misc. & CHE DO A RA both nicely; this is a hill i'll absolutely die on.

7/10 imho is the perfect rating for this album to end up with - every album dimlim puts out seems like a different band's debut & i hope they stay around to make 10+ more

this album's WEIRD but i'd rather have a few more strange ones like this than a hundred alright albums that do just fine.

not sure why the 'are they vkei or aren't they' debate is so lively when the music sounds more vkei than 鵬翼 & their looks are more vkei than 達郎's in 心のない町's PV. between this & DEZERT i'd say rather than declaring individual bands to have fallen off the vkei wagon we're seeing the early phases of another branch of this scene, like what we english-speakers call oshare/nagoya/angura/art kei. indie kei? i think it could be a thing & would love to see more of it

tbh retsu could put out a full album of SEs & i'd enjoy it - maybe that's bc i don't listen to enough actual IDM or Flying Lotus et al but either way it pauses & carries the mood of Misc. & CHE DO A RA both nicely; this is a hill i'll absolutely die on.

7/10 imho is the perfect rating for this album to end up with - every album dimlim puts out seems like a different band's debut & i hope they stay around to make 10+ more

Sho and Koichi have the same sugar daddy.

If this is the sound they wanna go for moving forward then I'd like to think it's something theyll just keep getting better at with each new release. I know technically this isnt a new band or a debut album but that's kind of what it feels like (not in a bad way) and itll just take some time developing this new era of dimlim to reach their full potential. Unless of course they do another 180 with their sound in a year or two but I would like to see them move forward with what they went for in misc.
 
My first impressions I'd probably give the album a 7/10 but I need to sit on this for a week at least before giving a proper score.

I'm curious to see how Angeloof will sound

Yomi’s technique always seemed odd to me. It’s like he’s holding his breath while he sings. 

Money speaks louder, so no.

Haru from Xaa-Xaa and Takuya from Rands also use hollow bodies