[hiro]

things i like about this album

- the nuanced arrangements and the new textures. Harder beats and darker sound palletes really anchor down songs which may have been too grating otherwise like Energize and rollin'. Some really interesting stuff with disco-munication as well.

- I like how the song structure and arrangements aren't so chorus-centric. I feel a lot of her songs were increasingly made just to highlight a strong chorus and everything else was just buildup. Nothing wrong with that type of structure mind you but it just gets so pointless when you can tell where the whole song is going after a 5 second listen

- Less electric guitar. Is it me or did she use that for every song since I am?

- Now, if only the first 2 and last 2 songs were cut, I could have an album I could listen to front to back for the first time in my 9 year history of Ayumi fandom.