Okay, I can't believe she just dropped an album on AWA yesterday. I was finishing up a paper for my class and couldn't really listen to the album attentively, so I'll write my impressions in detail later.
What I have to say right now is that Summer Love is a very unexpected song, and even though it's a very up-beat, EDM-influenced track, it doesn't feel "too Western" to me. I don't know, in the middle of the electronic beat I feel like I'm definitely listening to J-Pop, and that's good. Also, Survivor reminds me of INSPIRE a lot, another good surprise
I just think it's such a shame that the album is so short and she even included Many Classic Moments in it. I mean, last time we heard she said she'd written 9 tracks, and that's exactly the amount of new songs we have. It feels like she had to release the album ASAP and, in order to make a deadline, she just put all the songs she already had together and called it a day. I don't feel like she put a lot of creative effort into the album, but obviously I wasn't expecting a lot.
Can't wait to see the real cover art though! I assume they didn't shoot it yet.