I love it how everyone's getting so defensive just because the writer has a different opinion of the album. IMO, the author's spot on, so there!
And as for the stereotypical J-Pop comment (I haven't listened to much JPop properly, coz it's kinda a crummy genre as far as I'm concerned), I agree with the writer because most of the songs sound like stereotypical Ayu songs and she's such a defining icon on the JPop scene...but yeah, "they just suck" too.