26 Friday Feb 2021
Aoi Teshima brings a single including “Tadaima,” a ballad composed by Takatsugu Muramatsu. Lyrics are written by Junji Ishiwatari. Also includes “Hoshiakari no Traumerai” and more for five tracks in total.
Release Date: February 24, 2021
Tracklist:
1.ただいま
2.星明かりのトロイメライ
3.明日への手紙 (Live at Fukuoka International Congress Center on February 24, 2020)
4.ただいま (instrumental)
5.星明かりのトロイメライ (instrumental)
OVERALL RATING: 5 stars
26 Friday Feb 2021
Fiction is the second mini-album released by Aida Rikako. The song “Dream hopper” was used as the opening theme for the anime Soukou Musume Senki.
Release Date: February 24, 2021
Tracklist:
1,Dream hopper
2.フィクション
3.退屈が大好き
4.花筵
OVERALL RATING: 3½ stars
26 Friday Feb 2021
“Wish You Were Here” is the fourth digital single by CL. It was released on February 26, 2021 and is dedicated to her late mother who recently passed on February 10.
Tracklist:
1.”Wish You Were Here”
OVERALL RATING: 4½ stars
26 Friday Feb 2021
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Laura Mvula has released her first music in five years in the form of ‘1/f EP’.
Hot off the heels of signing to Atlantic Records, the Ivor Novello-winner has reworked her hit singles with a completely new direction, inspired by 80s frequencies.
The four-track EP boasts synth-led and funky renditions of ‘Sing To The Moon’, ‘Show Me Love’ and ‘Green Garden’, and her interpretation of Diana Ross classic ‘I’m Still Waiting’.
Laura was originally against touching her old music because it’s so precious to herself and her fans, but she took the risk as she is feeling “a lot more brazen” .
In a statement, the singer said: “I was against re-interpreting old songs in the beginning because the songs from ‘Sing to the Moon’ and ‘The Dreaming Room’ are very sacred to me and to lots of people who have adopted those songs as their own spiritual anthems. But I actually found new energy and life in those songs by putting them through the filter of my current sonic season, which feels a lot more direct than where I’ve been in the past. A lot more brazen, a lot more fearless. I’m an advocate for risk taking, and so it was amazing to be able to take those songs into that space with me.”
The EP follows Laura’s first show in over three years, her special one-off live-streamed performance ‘Laura Mvula Presents…Under A Pink Moon’, which aired on Wednesday (24.02.21), which saw her give fans a taste of what is to come in her new chapter.
The 34-year-old singer’s signing with Atlantic came after found out she had been dropped by Sony’s RCA Victor label via email in 2017.
She was forwarded the correspondence, which was seven lines long, but her former manager had been told in person that her five-album deal was being terminated.
Speaking in March 2017, she said: “I didn’t see anyone, I didn’t hear anybody’s voice. I just read words. It felt so cold and cruel.
“Not even the fact I was dropped, the way that the whole thing happened. To be treated like that doesn’t feel quite just.
“First I was confused, I didn’t understand. I was always told I was such a valued part of what Sony had become today – I was an artist who was taking risks and doing things that fresh and genuinely new – I believed them.
“I guess in my head I always thought there would be a conversation, a renegotiation, but never kinda, ‘It’s over’. It’s been a huge wake up call.”
However, she later admitted being dropped from Sony was a liberating experience.
Laura’s last studio album was ‘The Dreaming Room’, her second studio album, which she dropped in June 2016.
Tracklist:
‘Sing To The Moon’ (1/f version)
‘Green Garden’ (1/f version)
‘Show Me Love’ (1/f version)
‘I’m Still Waiting’ (Diana Ross cover)
OVERALL RATING: 4 stars
26 Friday Feb 2021
Chihiro Onitsuka provided a song to the film “Pornographer: Playback” as its main theme song. Also includes the main theme song of other titles of “Pornographer” series, “Twilight Dreams” and “End of the world.” Regula edition additionally includes live versions of “Twilight Dreams” and “End of the world.”
Release Date: February 24, 2021
Tracklist:
1.スロウダンス
2.End of the world (album version)
3.Twilight Dreams
4.スロウダンス (instrumental)
5.End of the world (album version) (instrumental)
6.Twilight Dreams (instrumental)
7.End of the world (Live at Bunkamura Orchard Hall on November 17, 2020)
8.Twilight Dreams (Live at Fukuoka Internarional Congress Center on August 20, 2018)
OVERALL RATING: 5 stars
26 Friday Feb 2021
“Villain” is the ninth digital single by Cheetah. It was released on February 26, 2021 and features Jamie.
Tracklist:
1.”Villain”
OVERALL RATING: 3½ stars
26 Friday Feb 2021
“Tail” (꼬리) (stylized in all caps) is the sixth digital single by Sunmi. It was released on February 23, 2021.
Tracklist:
1.”Tail”
2.”What The Flower”
OVERALL RATING: 4 stars
26 Friday Feb 2021
“Long shot” is the first single released by Maeshima Mayu. The title track was used as the opening theme for the second season of the anime Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu, and the song “Reline” was used as the theme for the game Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Tsuwari no Ousen Kouho.
Release Date: February 24, 2021
Tracklist:
1.Long shot
2.Reline
3.Long shot (instrumental)
4.Reline (instrumental)
OVERALL RATING: 4 stars
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