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01 - New Life 02 - Beach 03 - Reloaded 04 - Just Be Yourself 05 - Soko Ni Aru Omoi 06 - Glide 07 - Shigatsu No Kaze 08 - Daiji Datta 09 - Let It Go 10 - Ano Sora No Mukou 11 - Peace 12 - The Way Of A Glory 13 - Thank You |
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Initially, my main reason for wanting to check out NIA was U-ri; her solo stuff thus far had been uninspiring but I was a big fan of Missile Girl Scoot so I thought I'd give her a chance to redeem herself. The entire band has something of a pedigree being made up of ex. members of Snail Ramp, Going Steady, Full Trap and Fanta Zero Coaster. The album itself weighs in at a respectable 13 tracks though the total running time of 47:38 is a bit short, it is fairly appropriate to the style of music. After having listened to this album a few times through, it wasn't at all what I was expecting. For a start, the writing duties have been split fairly evenly between the two vocalists; U-ri (Ex. Missile Girl Scoot) and Ishimaru (Ex. Snail Ramp). In terms of tracks, the majority are sung primarily by U-ri with Ishimaru taking over for a couple of tracks. This creates a quite big contrast between some of the different songs: the ones with U-ri on vocals ("Beach", "Reloaded" and "New Life" to name a few) are quite poppy, whereas the ones handled by Ishimaru (such as "Soko Ni Aru Omoi" and "Daiji Datta") turn out harder and generally more satisfying. Their sound is quite hard to describe but imagine something along these lines: Take Missile Girl Scoot, remove most of the harder riffs, add more poppish elements, remove Junn and let U-ri write the songs. So I guess what I'm saying that it's like Missile Girl Scoot but without the things that made them good. Don't get me wrong, I like U-ri's voice but she shouldn't ever be left to write songs. Overall this album was both a letdown and a surprise. U-ri's parts, which I had expected to enjoy, turned out really bland and the songs with Ishimaru turned out to be the redeeming points of the album. I can't totally condemn it because while there are a few exceptions, it does seem to be largely made up of filler tracks that seem to run into each other and can be quite hard to tell apart if you aren't looking at the playlist at the time. With such a pedigree you would expect them to come up with something a bit less tedious than this. The only track I would really recommend from this album would be "Soko Ni Aru Omoi" and that is because it sounds totally different from the rest of it; a drop of colour in a sea of beige. |
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