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MUTEMATH - Lost Year

Obvious Koshi Inaba choice is obvious. Also that guy MAXX is fine. The beard totally does him justice.

Definitely not the best way to end their career, but it's pretty obvious by now that they don't have anything else to do musically, and this album just proved it. I'll end up liking every song here, but I was expecting much more - not to mention that I'm truly bothered by the lenght of the album, the fact that they included a SE song to an already short CD and also by Shiki, which is probably their weakest ballad, right at the end of their last effort. I disliked everything once I heard the 128kbps to be honest. I was expecting something epic, but I only got three singles (which are far from being their best), a 2:20 song which could've been much more developed - especially considering it has some great ideas - and more recycled stuff. The stand-out track for me was definitely 鬼咆 at first; lovely guitars at the beginning and the whole thing just works. Now as I'm listening to the 320kbps version, I don't dislike it so much. Sure, I'm not delusional to say they did their best, but it's an overall cool album. There's still tons of stuff to complain about, especially in regards of song structure, but also a few things to not overlook. 契 fits well in their dancey catalogue and works nice enough as a single off this particular album; also regarding the singles, 白ゐ嘘 still remains as the best one for me. 隠恋慕 has some cool ideas despite its disappointing lenght, and I wish they would've worked more on this one; sadly, it seems they didn't even try. 鬼還 has a very remarkable, almost shizuku-ish chorus, but I still have to get more used to this one. 鬼咆 still remains as my favorite - I love the guitar work on this one and it kind of reminds me of another great (and vastly underrated) song from them, 故郷, from the 誓ノ月 single. However, it still seems to lack a spark in the song structure, but the overall result is satisfying enough. I still don't know exactly what to think of 魔夏の世の夢, but it seems like a grower - and + points for sounding like something that wouldn't feel out of place in [gozen], right after 諷説 or 異邦境. Eh, long-ass review, but I'm biased and they are my favorite Japanese band so I don't even care. As I said, I was expecting much more from a last album. This one is still pretty lackluster, but it's a fun CD to listen to once in a while I guess, though it pales a whole fucking lot in comparison to their other stuff. It seems like they didn't even make an effort to make this great and just threw whatever leftovers they had left just to release a last album - they barely even used the koto, which was being EXTREMELY overused in their latest stuff. Anyway, they're definitely not going out with a bang, but they have enough material to be back them up for a long time.

Creature Creature - Black Hole

Great title. Can't wait for this.

Just a couple of months until Yukino leaves them. jk (though not really), they actually sound decent and Yukino has a pretty nice voice it seems. I hope they plan on having some sort of future.

lol they're probably just trolling everyone. I particularly don't care if they actually end up releasing this, I'm sure they'll bring some crazy-ass heavy stuff along with it and in the end all I want really is new material from them.

I loved the first season and I feel the second season was very unremarkable. I really don't like the direction ANY of the characters have headed then, especially Marshall. But I shall give the third season a shot of course.

About time! It was taking them long enough to come up with something new already since they always mantain a pretty manic release schedule. Also Kakera was kickass and I don't expect anything different from them.

Uh, the vocalist could be better, but I like it too.

Great song as always.

I was still hoping there would be some more variety to the guitars in the chorus, but surprisingly I kind of like it. Hope there are no screams and the usual uguhughuhgugurrghh from Kyo in the rest of the song.

It was down for me today for quite some time, but it's back online for a few hours now. EDIT: By the way, this is definitely in the wrong forum.

Galileo Galilei - 僕から君へ

I'm disappointed it's only coming out in June, but excited nevertheless. Should be great as always.

Yeah, this. I wasn't interested in their post-V.I.D. stuff, but it's always a bummer to see a band like Vidoll go. I remember listening to their whole discography nonstop back in 2004/2005 and loooving it.

Gx2NSRLEJGA And plenty of other older ones, like BLOWIN', BAD COMMUNICATION and Hadashi no Megami.

HOW DARE YOU I also think recent Dir en grey is what is too hard on ears.

DIR EN GREY - DRAIN AWAY

Well, this is odd. I just had a huge urge to listen to Wtd. right now after years and I thought exact the same thing. They were so good.

I'd kill it with a fire so hard and so fast

lol this is not Jonte, right? Nevertheless, this guy works it.

cinema staff - daybreak syndrome Such a great song.

Pop singer-songwriter NIKIIE will release her second single on March 9th, titled "HIDE & SEEK". Tracklist is as follows: 1. HIDE & SEEK 2. LUV SICK 3. TOXIC Loved her debut single, so I'm really looking forward to this. Source: Neowing