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Old 24th March 2009, 12:00 PM
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I'm really loving this album! All the songs are great to me!

NEXT LEVEL: My album favourite. It's so relaxed and beautiful and makes you let out a contented sigh... This song'll be something I'll be listening to for a long time. XD

EnergizE: The english is so cute! Though this song is one of the less-memorable ones IMO. It sounds good but then it didn't have anything new towards the end and got repetitive in my view.

rollin': I really liked this one too! At least I remember really liking it. I don't actually remember how it sounds like. >.> I guess that's the problem I have with rollin' and also EnergizE.

identity: But, I remember the chorus for identity! Love this song. The chorus is so dramatic and reminds me of a heavier version of (miss)understood for some reason. Love it!

LOVE 'n' HATE: Best song out of all the album tracks! I fell in LOVE with this song. It was just so different and had sooooooo many variations and surprises everywhere! I don't care if it sounds all over the place as long as it keeps on surprising me and coming up with new things. XD I just don't like how repetitive songs like EnergizE were.

Curtain Call: A pretty ballad. It sounds sooo much more beautiful on HQ. The lyrics were a bit simple and if Ayu were to have made them more poignant... like, I dunno, use more imagery? And have more sets of lyrics for the chorus (like Who...)? Something like that. I suppose it would have made the song much better.

Overall I love this album and I would really give it an 8.5/10. I think there isn't a track that's truly skippable, like there was in most of Ayu's other albums. But in terms of the tracks along by themselves, I think there are better tracks on other albums that stand out a lot more. This album is a great balance of really good songs, but there's nothing extremely shiny in there.
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