Just finished watching the music video DVD. It's amazing how good the quality was throughout (pretty much) all the videos. Definitely an improvement over Kingdom's "PV for every song" deal.
However, now that I've heard the entire album through watching all the PVs, I'm a little bit disappointed. It's a solid album, but it has hardly any standout tracks. The production is amazing throughout, but I can't help but feel that barely any of the songs have any real standout melodies or hooks. While I'd say that it seems to be her second most consistent album next to BEST~ss~, I wouldn't exactly rank it her second best at this point. Then again, that's only after the first listen and not in order (since the order on the DVD is by genre). I'm sure it will grow on me with time. At least I can say for the first DVD and amazing packaging alone, I don't regret the purchase.
Also, I didn't see anyone else say it yet, but
the second DVD is only 26 minutes long, so clearly it only includes a digest of the lives and not full versions, which is surprising given how often the second DVD on Kuu's albums will have a full-on concert. Oh well, I have so many Kuu concerts that I have most of the performances already, so a digest is kind of a nice way to watch enough to be satisfied, but not be bored.
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Originally Posted by Tom Punks
I agree. The production is kind of what "saves" the album. I like the album a lot, but the composition of half of the songs themselves is not great. ESCALATE and Lay Down have great atmosphere, but their choruses are absolutely snoozefests and kill the songs unfortunately.  |
Complete agreement. I was hoping for so much more with ESCALATE and Lay Down