Finches III v.2

[vampyrichamster]

So I was supposed to have finished this thing a month ago, complete with, you know, debugging. Then, of course, I showed it to a few nice friends, let's call them scanner_darkly, mokie and countlibras, all awesome people I respect, because that's what you do when you have friends. Let's say your friends come back slightly puzzled at your ending, and maybe notice where you've

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[countlibras]

wait! shouldn't you be listening to Tenshi no Revolver? *nudge*

XD

[vampyrichamster]

I have the Tenshi no Revolver. Thank you so very, very much for putting that up for me. I will now put in on, and ruminate upon it, and maybe even post my dingbat review or something! :)

[countlibras]

I have been so addicted to TnR. It'd be kind of pathetic except I know that I'm not the only one. :D

[vampyrichamster]

Well, I'm on the 5th song atm, La vie en Rose -- and all that I've heard so far tells me this album truly sounds nothing like it came from this age. It's retro-ish, and gorgeously swanky. And I'm just OMGing the guitars, because it's so rare to hear such a guitar-heavy B-T album. Makes a real difference when they're not having a diarrhea of electronics to muck all the sounds up.

[countlibras]

"diarrhea of electronics"? haha! I love you.

I still cannot believe that "cream soda" is the brain child of Atsushi and Hide. Hide! Not Imai!
This album is definitely swanky. And generally upbeat with some lovely ballads. Originally I was obsessed with "rain" but "snow white" has totally snuck up on me for the favorite child award.

I must admit though that, unlike the general consensus, I'm not fond of Selia's voice on "revolver". I think it's whatever they did to it in production/engineering. It's too bad because it might have very well been my favorite otherwise. (I love how the song ends)

[vampyrichamster]

There are days of the week I'm listening to their live recordings, and I really, really want Imai to BE QUIET. Distortion FX so much pain!

Cream Soda was a jangle and a half. It quickly turned into my least favourite song in the whole album, sadly. There's a nice melody in the background though. I've heard the whole album now, and it really is upbeat. I'll still need time to process, but the nice surprise for me was Mr. Darkness & Mrs. Moonlight. When I heard the Bauhaus ref, I thought, "OMG, not that Mr. Moonlight..." and just really worried *gothmusicwoe*. The song itself is delightful. Sounds like the baby of Michiro Endo's Sasayaki and Masami Tsuchiya's Mienai Mono... covers from On Parade. It set the tone for the rest of the album for me.

The lady's voice on Revolver was alright, I thought. It's nice, but kind of too noisy to really stand out. A little demonic, like it fell out of 13 Kai. I wasn't good with Atsushi's sung melody, which I found flat and wearying.