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I've given myself a couple of days to digest W FACE...but the level of disappointment I feel about these two albums is unreal. I'm glad for y'all that found something to love but I just feel so let down.
I was super on board with the concept behind these albums when the announcement first came out and I really dig the theme of the 'dueling Koda Kumis" -- I've enjoyed that concept when she's explored it in her tours before so I was excited to see it done with a double album.
My main problem with this release is that it delivers quantity over quality. The inclusion of older tracks seems like a feeble effort to pad these albums and justify splitting it into two discs--who is checking for Kimi Omoi literally three years after it was initially released? She's been performing BRING IT ON for ages, why did it need to appear on this particular album? Shhh!, while it fits in just fine on -outside-, could have just as easily stayed off an album. Your mileage will obviously vary but for me, shoehorning these songs in just cheapens the intent behind creating a concept album to explore the dual sides of Kuu.
As far as the new tracks go, I feel very whelmed. (Sometimes underwhelmed, but never overwhelmed--unless I'm overwhelmed with disappointment.) I'm always here for one of Kuu's bangin' tracks but the ones on -outside- feel jarringly off the shelf. I don't see where she took these tracks and added her own unique perspective to them...literally anyone could release these tracks and I would feel just as meh about them. On top of that, I just find them bland because the songs themselves never seem to GO somewhere. Ultraviolet is the one track I find myself appreciating because I can listen to it and go, okay, there was some sort of structure in that song. I want the chorus to come and punch me in the face and not a single one of the tracks on this album delivered that. Bassline and Bangerang follow that same formula in the sense that, when I was listening to them the first time around, I was like "aight, I can get on board with this" and then the chorus comes in and it's like.....that's it? THAT'S FUCKING IT?
I'm rambling now so I'm going to cut myself off. tldr if she really wanted to do a concept double album she should have committed fully and not stuffed it full of older songs and straight-off-the-shelf demos. chocopocky out~
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