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Originally Posted by Evolution7/4
I would argue that next Level AND RnRC have great flows. Both are totally cohesive albums. As is Love Songs. All 3 have teh same sound yet different approaches (NL was electronic, RnRC rock and LS soft rock)
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Then I will explain myself with the "flow" I was talking about. If I may.
I meant in what order they choose to put the tracks on. R'n'RC makes alot of sence. The interludes helpes the tracks flow into each other in a natural way. Like Last Links -> montage (created that mystical feeling making the transition to Don't look back really natural). Same for Don't look back -> Jump -> Lady Dynamite. Very well thought-out. Same with SLT (edgy, sassy, funny) -> Sunrise (funny, a bit calmer, more natural sounds) -> meaning of love. Very nice transition there as well.
But, NEXT LEVEL is a total mess. A hot mess. I really like NL with many of it's tracks. But I rarely listen to it from start to end because it annoys me like hell. Can't stand it really. Why then?
The transition from Bridge to the sky and NEXT LEVEL is very natural and flowy. Then all of the sudden (when you're in this happy calm state NL (song) brings out) Disco-munication screams out. "O.o !!!". Another example in that album is rollin' to GREEN. How I wish they had a nice interlude or something to make the transition better. THEN, the absolute WORST transition and flow in Ayu albums... like... ever is the transition from LOVE 'n' HATE -> Pieces of SEVEN -> Days. Pieces of SEVEN starts of kind of calm and balladish but then it goes off to this really heavy part, ends, and then we have Days. If they instead have started with that heavy rock part in the interlude instead and finnished with a ballad it would make all the sense in the world. But no. If they would have switched places between Pieces of SEVEN with Load of the SHUGYO the flow would have improved greatly. But yeah. Almost every transition in that album is really not well thought-out. At all.