| 0.0 | Bedex | October 5th 20 |
While this has lots of ideas and sections I like, I can't decently call it a strong album. For starters, this is a case study of a singer just singing too much. On pretty much every track except Duvet and a couple others, it feels like she just can't stand more than 10s without singing, where tracks would have benefited a lot from having more instrumental parts. Stylistically, this is hesitant between great bass led indie grooves (the iconic jam 3, the nice 5 with its pianos and strings exemplifying how I wish she sung a little less,maybe 8 which is instrumentally cool but makes no sense here with this random switch to a male singer, and especially 9 which also introduces elements of reggae and other things making for a super rich track), sections that evoke noisy rock and unwound almost (the excellent inspiring chorus on 2 that feels like a prechorus though, some of the chords on 4 despite zzz singing, 6 despite its poor chorus and again singing, 10 with its cute intro but noisy chorus - and a bad fade out), very generic and frankly not well executed alt rock (1 although the midtrack improves things, 7 that starts ok but gets really generic and zzz, a lot of other bits and pieces), and random things like the reggae bits on 9 or the oriental sounding 11 which is kinda cool. An exciting debut but also a worrisome one, I wonder if they will correct the many flaws here. 3.25
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| 0.0 | BlitzPhoenix98 | August 18th 20 |
Listened to this primarily because of Duvet, which served as the opening theme song for the anime Serial Experiments Lain. Very delightful listen, aside from Duvet, Twilight is also an amazing piece of work.
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| 0.0 | Britch2tiger | April 11th 17 |
Where Lilium came from Elfen Lied (honestly the song being the only highlight of that anime [but that's for another discussion]), I somehow stumbled upon this band's song Duvet - am I'm SO GLAD that I did, I mean WOW! Somehow this album manages to cloak such a heavy atmosphere w/ such a soft delivery on this band's take of (dream pop) alternative rock. The album's first 3 tracks come off as solid hitters, but honestly the rest of the album pales by comparison. Still a pretty decent album overall. Hope to hear more great songs from this band!
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