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Originally Posted by js_surrealism
All in all there were some great songs on Love songs but the whole album suffered from bad arrangements, bad production, which is a shame.
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I wish more people heard what we're apparently hearing x_x The production on the album really does have a very amateur "no real instruments, just keyboard" sound for almost every song. It all sounds like demos, or it sounds dated, aside from Love song and do it again. I've NEVER been able to get past how much the album sounds like stuff I could have done on my Casio when I was in elementary school.
It doesn't bother me so much that it sounds like that - if Ayu were this new indie artist I'd have been blown away by the album's promise. But the final release of a major album by the biggest selling solo female artist in Japanese history just should NOT sound so unprofessional.
Regarding "November," I agree with Zeke that the lack of a climax or resolution is probably completely deliberate. But the song is so steady throughout that the "loop" is what I'm hearing... there's no aural cue that I'm supposed to expect anything from the start. The instrumentation doesn't build up gradually over the course of the song and then leave me hanging, which is what "Walk" does, so it accomplishes the "no resolution" thing muuuuch better. "Walk" actually creates tension that you want to be relieved; "November" creates no such tension. It's just dull.