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Ahhh I hadn't realized Robin Aoki was working on this when I heard some of the songs on FB but I totally got a downy vibe so it makes sense. Just going to reiterate my excitement for this release (and the new downy for that matter), I expect nothing short of epic. 

Ugh I was in love with both bands but 赤い公園 after のぞき穴 and tricot after 小学生と宇宙人 really hurt my heart. Even more so on Ko-en's part though because the single and the debut album are really really really really basic and Toumei is one of my favorite mini albums. Riding on the goodwill of Toumei I will vote for them though. 

I like them both a lot and they have similar trajectories in my mind (similar to CAT's) so it is tough... but what gives the edge (although unfairly) is I have seen Cinema Staff live twice and haven't seen Arukara yet. CS were totally on point and just the right amount of swinging from lighting fixtures antics to please me.   

Sounds excellent. Reminds me of how much I miss SFP. 

All day I've been trying to convince myself that this song is just a parody but I've made peace with myself that this is indeed it. No. Just no. I don't even know how you go from shadowplay to this. It is mind boggling. Made even more so because saga ballads tend to be so wonderful. I understand that the lyrics/message of the song are important and shou did great vocally. I even like the slight RnBness to it and retro feel, but its just too far on the pop side and lacking in the awesome musicianship I know they can bring. I think it is mostly because it doesn't even feel like a9 to me and instead I was feeling wtf Arashi? It may grow on me but right now the disappointment is way too high.

It's also kind of a shame because this is probably one of their better Pvs (they really should adopt more story lines in their Pvs, but I know I'm asking for too much especially since we didn't even really get that during Gemini period). I'm hoping whenever the album comes they just scrap these singles and have all new songs (again hoping for much).

Yassssss.

Honestly, I wasn't feeling daybreak that much. The intro and verses were great and had my hopes really high for some atmospheric dance-ish type awesomeness but dat chorus made me a sad puppy. Of course the overall single was fine as they always make up with great b-sides. But shadowplay...SHADOWPLAY... goodness, this song has me feeling the vapors and taking my fangirl pants outta retirement. Now that's the Alice I love. Scarlet preview sounds equally as amaze balls. Now I'm excited, if they continue with this the next single and album, I will be such a happy Doe.

Somehow I know every song but your pick for favorite. youtube search led me to miku vocaloid, so I wasn't sure if I got the right one, but the instrumental sounds right from your description. It's actually pretty nice considering I tend not to like too many vocaloid tracks. 

 

Phantogram - When I'm Small 

antennasia - Blue Dress

The Used - Blue and Yellow 

Minus The Bear - Damn Bugs Whacked Him, Johnny

Lady Gaga - Dance in The Dark 

Do As Infinity - Dear Memories

The Unique Star - China China 

AUSIA - MOTHER GOOSE

Peppertones - April Funk 

Straightner - The Remains - Dead Edit

 

Kinda close between a few but When I'm Small edges out due to it's staying power (as in It's a song, like many of phantogram's actually, that I never really get tired of)

It sucks to see them go, but I'm not particularly shocked. At least we're getting a new album.

By the way, their new look is amazing.

This pretty much. D:

Maybe a photobook documenting Kyo's throat surgeries.

yes! The reality of the scary dream of MOO.

Off-topic: These new smilies are slightly disturbing lol

^The vocals and the lyrics are very Linkin Park-ish I agree but the music itself sounds totally in line with half the stuff coming out of the visual scene imo. Maybe because a lot of it isn't that far removed anyway tbh.

Can't say I'm disappointed because I haven't been a serious fan of gazette since Stacked Rubbish but I'm highly impressed by the level of trolling this all seems to be; from the way the limited is split up and "conceptualized" to the previews sounding pretty much like piping hot delicious copypasta. I will say out of the 2 previews I honestly think ibitsu is ever so slightly better, it's stuffed with a little less Gazetropes in it and coming out of "stock gazette pop chorus 1" it sounds like there could be something maybe interesting going on there in the verses, it's a nice melody as I think augie mentioned, so there is hope there where Derangement has none for me.

Hnnng love Children Of Nova. Been jamming to The Complexity of Light for some while now (I think I may have played a few songs on TT when I still frequented.) I've been so out of music though I still haven't checked out the Full-length but will get on that soon-ish.

Haven't watched last nights episode yet. The first 2 episodes of the second season were okay but kind of disappointing too for some of the reasons Zess and Aion brought up but I'm sure it'll get back up to par.

and lol @ Renly looks like Furik. Kinda yes.

omg yessss

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CAN. NOT. WAIT.

Sounding pretty awesome.*excite*

So there you go. I wasn't expecting them to do something as AMAZING as GEMINI. This album seems like an interlude between whats to come and I am sure it's going to blow us all away much like GEMINI did. "9" is a natural Alice Nine album. It seems like they weren't trying to out do themselves or trying to create the best album ever, it's like they were just writing music and this is what came out. All the songs are so perfectly Alice Nine and I'm happy with the album. I am already dying from anticipation to see what comes next.

This pretty much sums up my feelings. Overall I think it's a solid album that's most effective as a whole, weakest songs are easily the singles but even in the context of the album it lifts them up a bit. Didn't expect it to top Gemini but it also exceeded my expectations in how good it is. Totally hit the nail on it feeling like an interlude as although it doesn't top the last album it also doesn't feel like a step back imo, definitely an in-transition. Favorite songs = Heavenly Tale, The Arc, Hanagasumi, hello, world (all the instrumental noodling and shou talk = hell yea for me ~) and Apocalypse [iNTE] (though for the life of me i cannot name the song the vocal melody at the beginning of each verse reminds me of danggit). Is that like all the new ones? lol oops. My only reaaaaalll reaaaaallllllll complaint is that the transition from hello, world to niji no yuki is very awkward but other than that I'm reasonably pleased.

yuckieofsequin is mah kinda guy.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet.

There was some pretty cool sounding stuff in there from what I could gather but hopefully they put up some clean samples on the site soon to get a better picture. (the vid does work btw =))

EDIT: so it plays the samples in order during the keyword part (where it show the QR code).The one that plays for the long-ish stretch (from 18:00) is "the Arc"(which is kinda obvious as Nao is talking about it, I think he says it's his pick from the album, that it's similar to tsubasa in that the drumming is rather fast, he recorded in a small room and that he had to move his feet angrily etc. They also both say they like Kasumi (23:40ish mark song when they're talking about the album events) as it has interesting lyrics and that the guitar solo is cool and then shou says his pick is subete e but I tuned out after that since I'm sure it was the usual drivel lol) but it sounds pretty good me thinks.

hey doe is back too C:

only when class cancellations permit ;___;

MITTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUUU. This is the happiest day of my life

EDIT: upon further inspection, not sure if real mitsu. Something is off... My heart cannot take this.