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Seems like the real winners on the mini-album are Wake me up and Sweet scar.
snowy kiss... is sort of monotonous. I dig the arrangement and the vocals, but the melody is quite awful in the way it sort of drags on and on... It has that discordant "nails on a chalkboard" effect that I think a lot of TK compositions (see: Namie, globe, TRF) have. Oddly enough, I loved every TK song on Love songs... I normally dislike his brand of J-pop.
Ivy is unmemorable. It doesn't move me in the slightest. Maybe I'll change my mind when the translation is posted.
To be honest, I'm really suspicious that You & Me, snowy kiss, and Ivy were all created and pitched to Ayu during the Love songs sessions. And for sure Sweet scar is an old DAI song out of the vaults. I also wonder if all the recent Yasuhiko Hoshino songs are from the vaults as well. If I thought these were brilliant songs, I'd be fine with it, but they just seem like songs that weren't strong enough to make a previous release, which makes the project seem rather uninspired...
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