What's weird is that I love individual songs off of NL or Secret, but as albums I think they're just sloppy. It's only if I try to listen to either album in order do I realize this: if I have my iTunes on shuffle and a song from either album pops up I'm pleased to hear it. So idk what that says about my taste lol. I do typically like anything Ayu does (save for that veeeery first mini album she released pre-avex) so it's not a matter of musical taste, it's really just a matter of coherency and the flow of the finished product. That's why it took me so long to get into FIVE and why even now I'll regard classics such as Duty with a bit of hesitancy.
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With the exception of GREEN, I think NL is her most coherent album.
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I found that if you stick GREEN in right after NEXT LEVEL, the rest of the album goes along quite nicely. That way you have these nice, crisp, fresh sounding songs right off the bat and then it gets jarring and dance!angry.