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Again Grace, it's personal taste. I dun doubt you find UB million times better than HS. Like I said, UB is quite distinctive in hikki's discography. It is unique in complexity and it's not mainstream at all. However, for me hikki has making this album too complicated that it didn't really suit my taste at all. The songs quality overall is better than Distance (IMO Distance is her worst album.. that's what I call "pleasing the public" album), but it's quite difficult to get into it. (Let's say Kairo... I do agree that this song should be very unique, but somehow it doesn't attract me at all).
For HS... I dun really think hikki's tryin' to be please the general public. More likely I feel like she has stepped out from her melancholy (I'm not saying she has depression.. but she wasn't that super happy in her life back in UB I think). I think she wants to make a happier album, so she chose to make something soother than UB. If we compare UB and HS, they both use similar arrangements (sync instruments all over the place), but HS is less complicated than UB. This is one of the reasons I prefer this album more. While the lyrical contents are still beautifully written, the mood is softer and I feel calm when I listen to this album.
That's is how I see between UB and HS. I admit that the single songs in UB are much better in taste, but the album songs had too much thoughts going thru. HS's single songs are weaker in terms of music uniqueness, but in overall the album flows much better.
I still think DEEP RIVER is her best album. Unique singles, wisdom thoughts, album flow... It's like she combined the songs to tell a story..
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