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Originally Posted by Ashen Twilight
Really enjoyed this album as well as Syndrome, but can someone explain to me why TRICKY SISTERS MAGUC BURGRR seems popular around here? I don’t understand why.
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Because it's a great album...?
For all that Chihiro's voice was rough during that period, as a performer she is good, sometimes great, on the album, and the composition work and arrangements are fantastic (I want to say the mixing/mastering is good too; the Spotify version has some strange issues but my own rip sounds good).
The stretch of songs from Lady Time Machine Blues to Inori ga Kotoba ni Kawaru Koro is imo the best sequence of songs on any of her studio albums. Those songs are all outstanding, the variety is lovely, and the flow is
perfect (I kinda want to say the album is great from the very beginning, ROAD OF HONESTY would be the only small dip and I've come to love that song a lot too). The album does a really good job of marrying Chihiro's classic style with the different rock influences (the rootsy vibes of ROAD OF HONESTY and MAD MAN, the trashier new-wavey (?) Lady Time Machine Blues and Anata to SciencE), this is not like DOROTHY where a classic Chihiro album gets occasionally interrupted by whole different record.
The only low point for me is Anata to SciencE, and even that is just harmless fun. Some of these songs (I'm with your shadow, Your Quiet Fantasia, PSYCHO LADY'S RAIN, The end of the flame of my eyes) are so
her, they deserve to be classics in her catalogue (but she seems to be determined to doom these songs to side project zone).
I think this album is also a great proof of Chihiro's talent and artistry: at the time her voice and public image were kinda in the gutters, she was operating independently in the industry for the first time (as far as I know), and she seemed to be going through heavy things in her personal life (not for the first time either), and in the middle of all that, she made this album that, at the core, under the BILLY'S SANDWICHES moniker and the public persona, is so quintessentially her and, in my opinion, really high-quality work.
Sorry for the wall of text, I apparently just have a lot of feelings about this album.
