Your thoughts on 『NEXT LEVEL』 Album tracks

[kotora]

Only a sentence to comment the whole album

It is ayu version "confession of dance floor", aka Confession of NEXT LEVEL.

[prussian blue]

Originally Posted by kotora

Only a sentence to comment the whole album

It is ayu version "confession of dance floor", aka Confession of NEXT LEVEL.

hahaha so true!

i've sense she's so yasutaka nakata inspired in this album! all of the tracks are so catchy and danceful! especially rollin' ! its so rare of her to use so much vocoder and edited voices, i'm sure i'll love this song!

about the others... NEXT LEVEL sounds okay, a cheerful song at last. discomunication sounds good too. LOVE n HATE is okay, i like it too
, pieces of seven, just like the ppl here said, sounds like RAINBOW instrumental. and at last, CURTAIN CALL sounds AMAZING! it reminds me of jewel so much! i love it

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by prussian blue

hahaha so true!

i've sense she's so yasutaka nakata inspired in this album! all of the tracks are so catchy and danceful! especially rollin' ! its so rare of her to use so much vocoder and edited voices, i'm sure i'll love this song!

Which honestly worries me. I've been thinking that Ayu's voice has been losing its power for a while now. The only song on the album that seems to contain her raw vocals is Curtain Call and that is the song where her voice sounds the worst imo. Very much like the scattered and kind of broken vocal performances she gave on tv last year and to a slightly lesser extent the year before that. This is another reason why I think it would be better for her, her fans, and her music to take a much needed break for a while and really recupporate everything. I don't want Ayu's voice to have to always rely on good studio engineers and vocoder effects and then have her actual live voice on music programs and what not sound shot.