[Chiharo]

Let's just break down Voice of EARTH and my life:

Spoiler:

Voice of EARTH

01. Tennyo ~interlude~ - probably the best interlude I've heard in my life. It's made of epic win.

02. Ashita e no Sanka - do I HAVE to say anything to this epicness?

03. Sora Uta - this is yet another epic upbeat song.

04. Natsukashii Miari ~longing future~ - one of the most beautiful songs out there, it really sends shivers down your spine near the end.

05. Hitotsu - a stunning and ultimately beautiful ballad.

06. Kaze no Tegami - a bit darker, but still epic and very interesting song.

07. BRAVE - WHOA. This is what a good upbeat song is called like.

08. Yume no Garden - this song is one of the most kick-ass ethereal songs I've heard in my whole life.

09. Gunjou no Tani - now that's a great example of yet another epic song on the album.

10. my friend - a really nice song with great instrumentation. Some people might consider it as boring but I personally love it.

11. Liberty - probably the least amazing song on the album, but it's still very good.

12. Tsuki ga Watashi - Beautiful. Another great song.

13. RED CLIFF ~kokoro.ikusa~ - epic win.

14. Megumi no Ame - my favorite song by alan and it owns everything with the beautiful hidden emotion in it.

15. Together - another WHOA song. Too bad it's only in limited release.

Conclusion: EPIC EPIC EPIC. It really holds everything that makes alan alan. Nature themed songs, traditional inspred music and WAILING. Voice of EARTH might have consisted of most ballads, but they were EPIC, not boring at all, and none of the works were destroyed by lazy instrumentation or anything.

Speaking of destroying alan, my life was released.

my life

01. reflection ~overture~ - you can't compare this to Tennyo, you simply can't. It's boring and uninteresting.

02. Swear - this could probably be the best upbeat song on the album. Even though most people loathe this song (as I did at first), I love it.

03. One - bleh. Boring. Like someone said earlier, a few first notes of the chorus sound surprisingly good, but then it gets weird.

04. Mitsumeteitai - one of the rare good ballads. But still nothing too special.

05. Namida (Smooth Jam Mix) - I want to kill avex for including this. It's not a bad remix, but why the hell does it have to be on an album? I love Namida, but I really don't care for this remix.

06. Lost Child - actually sounds very interesting, but still lacks something.

07. Butterflies - another bleh sounding song, at least everything except the chorus, but it still might used some more interesting instruments and composition.

08. Essence of me - it's too long and not really interesting if you ask me.

09. Call my name - I HATE the "are you ready" parts as they kill the song completely. Other than that it's very forgettable.

10. Shiroi Tsubasa - nice sounding but again turns into an uninteresting ballad.

11. Nobody knows but me - yay for this song. At least it's something good on the album!

12. BALLAD ~namonaki koi no uta~ - EPIC ballad. Because of it's epicness it seems to be out of the place in the album.

13. Kuon no Kawa - the only song that sounds like something from Voice of EARTH, something as epic. And it is epic. alan should stick to these kind of songs, or almost any on Voice of EARTH.

14. my life - great surprise at the end of the album. This song owns all the other new songs on this album!

Conclusion: To say honestly, alan made my heart sink with this album. I really thought she is the new Ayu for me, but now I really don't know. Most of it are boring up-beat songs which are really hard to sit through, but here I am trying the best I can, which is sad, as for Voice of EARTH, I instantly fell in love with it.

You guys get the difference now? I simply can't bring myself over to compare anything from Voice of EARTH with my life. Because Voice of EARTH wins over anything on my life. Well, it wins over at least the all non-single songs.

And yes, I do realize that Voice of EARTH mostly consisted of singles, but why does that even matter? I look at it as a full album and just an album. If most of the songs were strong and epic it only makes it better.