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| 4.0 excellent | Jared Floryan | October 12th 16 |
Quite frankly, if it weren't for "Simple & Clean" and "Sanctuary" - two songs heavily associated with the divisive Kingdom Hearts franchise - I'd have next to no knowledge about Japanese American singer-songwriter Utada Hikaru. Up until this album right here, I haven't heard any of Utada's tracks which aren't the aforementioned tunes used in KH. Ultra Blue is the woman's overall sixth full-length record and fourth Japanese-language album, and man does it strike a nice balance of style and of course substance. The offering is paced well, contains some really beautiful vocals, and a lot of the compositions are written with enough finesse so as of not wear out whomever's listening. Ultra Blue basically has a nice personality behind it and a fine number of memorable pieces, even if the album isn't always on top of Mt. Everest. Angel recommends: "Blue," "Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro," "Colors," "Wings," and "Passion".
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| 5.0 classic | Bloodhail | June 9th 22 |
Every passing year I keep returning to this.
None of the tracks miss. As close to perfect as
you can expect for what it does and what it
tries to be. I had it rated highly already, but
I have to bump this up to classic for the
staying power it has had with me.
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| 4.0 excellent | Vorpax | August 20th 15 |
More like a single collection, lacks cohesiveness but a good album overall.
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| 4.5 superb | BlueW | April 30th 12 |
solely because of Passion, and that Deep River has that annoying guitar on one song
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| 5.0 classic | moku | November 3rd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Emo | October 17th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dylan | February 22nd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Furik | January 18th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jrzg85 | December 22nd 20 |
| 3.5 great | Codah | March 26th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Kaijala | November 23rd 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Byeloow | January 24th 17 |
| 3.5 great | niaL | October 19th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | bbution | September 28th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Apollo | August 21st 16 |
| 3.5 great | stromz | August 17th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | RobotE | April 24th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Shinya | January 3rd 16 |
| 3.0 good | Runeii | April 10th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wiosna | April 17th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Zeg | August 1st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Titan50 | November 24th 12 |
| 3.0 good | KILL | September 25th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Jhowkun | August 30th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Trebor. EMERITUS | August 16th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | X3ni92 | August 17th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fluorine | November 26th 10 |
| 2.5 average | rc1288 | October 12th 10 |
| 3.5 great | fjrz91 | March 12th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | FadedSun | February 25th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Wamwig | December 22nd 09 |
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