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First listen of the album, impressions are not good. There's nothing wrong with the songs themselves, I love most of the mini-album tracks, but in the context of an album it just doesn't work. I struggled to get through my first listen, and that has NEVER happened with any of her albums before.
She's played it too safe here. I'm all for nostalgia songs to celebrate her anniversary but not 13 of them. It's grating to listen to song after song of the same boring pop/rock arrangements. There's so little variety - she fails to push the envelope even a little. The interludes are actually the most exciting tracks on here.
Hopefully this will grow on me with more listens. But wow, I have never had such a negative first reaction to an Ayu album before. It's pretty scary.
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