I liked the album... but if I had to make a KOTOKO albums ranking (which I will proceed to do), it would be pretty low. Some of the new songs on the album were pretty meh (I can't remember a single thing about Fushi-Gino-Ana or Rock☆DE Fruits Basket♪), and all A-side tracks but Light My Fire fell into the same category. Overall, I just found the album very unbalanced, half of the songs being stuff I liked and the rest being stuff I didn't care about. My favorite songs are Light My Fire (awesome!), Damare yo Peter (fun!), SHOOT! (energetic!); I also liked My-Les, the title track, Sakura no Ame Moegi no yo, and, to my own surprise, frozen fir tree (turns out sat can do different sounds!)
The aforementioned album ranking! Where does Kuuchuu Puzzle fall in your opinion?
1. Garasu no Kaze
2. Hiraku Uchuu Pocket
3. UZU-MAKI
4. hane
5. Kuuchuu Puzzle
6. Epsilon no Fune
KOTOKO has been pretty quiet since the release of her album (probably because of touring), but I've and Eiko have not! Comiket came and went, Eiko and I've released their stuff; here's what seems to be available from those releases.
All the tracks from 5TEARSvol.3 here. Ripped by fierycrimson on I've Sound Forum, all the glory to him! Personally, I didn't like this album very much.
Sweet Dragon and new song are pretty great, but I have problems with all the other songs. However, I'm waaay in the minority with my opinion: I have literally seen no one else say anything bad about this album, most people are saying it's their favorite 5TEARS release!
I've released a lot in Comiket: two mini-albums and a piano instrumental album! I have seen no rips of any of these albums (which is just sad
), but at least the mini-album songs can be found on Youtube,
on this channel! They also have many videos of the I've performances in the Visual Art's anniversary concert uploaded, and I intend to check the hell out of those ASAP.
And finally, Mami Kawada is releasing a new single next Wednesday (26.02.2014), and it's already leaked!
Break a spell, here you go. I haven't had time to check out this single either, need to do that now.