[miwa] The 5th Thread ~ The 5th Year ~ Road to 5th Anniversary

[Kacku]

Originally Posted by Yoake

SPLASH isn't good. It has some goods arrangements and melodies but they don't work well together. The transitions are quite bad. It's like a patchwork with colours that don't match well. Overall this album is full with generic ballads. That's not a bad thing because they aren't horrible but that's not what I want from this little woman that I started to listen to when her first single was out.
The only new songs I truly like are ATTENTION (It's not outstanding because of the chorus's melody but at this moment of her career this rock song is quite good), Kawaranu Omoi (I know it's quite generic but I like it. Especially when both voices are singing together) and Naki koi (the introduction and the verse are really catchy. I like how the arrangement are progressing during the song)
About the old songs, I only changed my mind about Anata ga Koko ni Ite Dakishimeru Koto ga Dekiru Nara. It's slighty better than what I thought when the single was out. It's a pity that it is too long.

I actually agree about SPLASH being patchwork-like, but I still like it - the parts may be disjointed, but, to borrow your metaphor, the different colours in the patchwork work well together in my eyes. I also agree that this album has too many generic ballads, but at least some of them are good and have things that make them stand out (like the guitar in Kawaranu Omoi and the featuring vocalist in Ai Okuri).

Honestly, I think part of the reason I liked so many of the songs is that my expectations for miwa's music have become really low over the past two years, so it doesn't take much to surprise me positively, lol. I'm happy to have some new songs I feel like going back to, I haven't gotten many of those from miwa during this past era.