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Over the past few weeks, I've been so ridiculously busy I haven't had much time for music. Pretty much the only things I listened to were Crystal Kay's disappointing new album, Spotify's daily J-Pop mixes to lull me into a trance during long bus trips, and, most importantly, some old I've Sound CDs I recently got. And boy have those I've Sound CDs been a re-discovery. diRTY GiFT still blows my mind with how captivating, emotional and timeless the songs are - most of the tracks don't sound (to me) like they're from 2002, and the one that does, MELL's Sabaku no Yuki, sounds like 2002 in all the best ways, and is her best song and THE central track of this release besides. I can't believe Eiko Shimamiya made the ultimate mini-album of nothing but classics back in 2003 with Ozone, the amount of quality on one CD just blows my mind. I've MANIA Tracks Vol. III is such a cool collection of songs that works together remarkably well for a release that's supposed to be about just throwing rare songs onto one CD (must be all the "cross" tracks tying it together - cross up, cross my heart, Cross talk). KOTOKO's first album is still so impressive, I wouldn't be mad if she went back to this style sometimes.
Also, those Spotify mixes have reminded me that AAA's Daiji na Koto is one of the best J-Pop songs ever.
Now that I'm a little less busy for a while, I hope to catch up on some music. I still need to listen to KIRA's new album, for starters.
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