I appreciate ASFXX for its lyrical content but that's ... about it, sadly. I just really can't stand the music on most of the tracks, and I really need to be in a particular mood to listen to Ayu's early vocal style. Her squeaking is sometimes a little unbearable... and the style of the music isn't to my taste at all. However, I
really like the lyrics for these songs, even if I'm not a fan of the songs themselves. I find this to be one of her most honest albums--each song feels like a letter or a journal entry. I mean my god, I was stunned when I read the lyrics to
POWDER SNOW. They were so personal and so painful...
Overall, though, I really don't think much of the album as a musical contribution, but I think it's great as Ayu's starting point and shows us just how honest and poetic she could be.
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She's always been experimenting with various things after ASFXX.
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Yeah, I agree. LOVEppears sounded like
nothing that was featured on ASFXX, and same with LOVEppears to Duty--there may have been some similarities but as a whole, she's dabbled either for a full album or just for one song.
kiss o' kill,
GUILTY and
GREEN are three of her recent songs that strike me as really different from the standard Ayu-song procedure.