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袁婭維 (Tia Ray) – 月亮失眠了(ONCE UPON A MOON) (EP)

24 Thursday Jun 2021

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“月亮失眠了(ONCE UPON A MOON)” is the EP by the singer 袁婭維 (Tia Ray).

Release Date: 2021-06-18

Tracklist:

01.起床氣(SEARCHING)
02.如果你聽見(I’MNOTGOOD)
03.月亮上跳舞(EMOWHISKEY)
04.荷爾蒙(HARMONY)

OVERALL RATING: 3½ stars

NU’EST – Drive (Album)

07 Wednesday Oct 2020

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NU’EST to release the first release in Japan in about five years. Includes an original song for this edition “DRIVE (Japanese Ver.).” Also includes a Japanese version of “A Song For You,” which is newly recorded.

Release Date: October 07, 2020

Tracklist:

1.DRIVE (Japanese Ver.)
2.A Song For You (Japanese Ver.)
3.Call me back
4.LOVE ME
5.ONE TWO THREE
6.Trust Me
7.Stay up all night
8.If we
9.Moon Dance
10.I’m in Trouble
11.Firework
12.Back To Me
13.Must
14.Shooting Star

OVERALL RATING: 4½ stars

Minami Kizuki – One (Album)

02 Thursday Jul 2020

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Minami Kizuki brings the fifth album with 10 songs total. All songs arranged by Kenji Oshima (ex. THE HIGH-LOWS).

Release Date: December 18, 2019

Tracklist:

1.クレムツ
2.行かないで
3.ONE (Album Ver.)
4.るるる
5.ボーンフィッシュ
6.東京
7.恋雨～Len Rain～
8.追憶
9.タピオカ
10.おやすみ

OVERALL RATING
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3½ stars

Haley Reinhart – Lo-Fi Soul (Album)

15 Monday Apr 2019

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Haley Reinhart is a 28 year old singer/ songwriter born in Wheeling, Illinois. On March 27, 2019 she released her newest jazz/ soul/ pop with a little bit of rock album, Lo-Fi Soul.

The first three songs of this album, “Deep Water,” “Oh Baby,” and the title track, “Lo-Fi Soul,” are indicative of the direction that Reinhart strives to take within the almost 47 minute listen. It’s cohesive to a point of being a throwback to the times of doo-wop, r&b, and even jazz. This album prefers to weave in and out of genres like an old-time jukebox caught in a time machine. “Oh Baby” invokes the spirit and progressions similar to acts like The Supremes.

The title track begins a joyful, upbeat narrative of sounds from another time. Listening to the album in full, you will definitely feel like most of these sounds come straight out of your record player. Perhaps times where the oldest members of your family saw things in black and white and drive in movies were still popular and prevalent. Reinhart strives to take that and modernize it with her own touch.

“Don’t Know How To Love You’ sees Reinhart’s voice front and center against a backdrop of a single guitar to start off. Then organs, trumpets, background vocals, and faint drums are introduced, producing a very old-school aesthetic. This and “How Dare You” exhibit more rock and roll elements.

“Strange World” plays with Reinhart’s vocals within an echo that bounces off each other in a tale about getting lost within someone. Like “Deep Water,” Reinhart multiplies her vocals in a layer that almost feels like utilizing another instrument or callback to the main set of vocals.

“Lay It Down,” a ballad that has both piano and organ chords fill in around Reinhart as she recalls the shards of a love fallen apart displays gospel tendencies. This song as well as “Some Way, Some How,” continues a theme with the ballads on the album that serve to elevate the emotion of Reinhart’s subject matter. “Some Way, Some How,” includes string arrangements in a plea to try to salvage a love went south.

“Honey, There’s The Door,” invokes themes like Casanova and figures like Bridget Bardot and Marilyn Monroe in a playful expose reminiscent of 60’s pop. “Baby Doll” sounds like the most modern song on the album that can fit with the contemporary pop style of today. Within the consistent theme of the album, it may stick out as going against the grain to what Lo-Fi Soul is trying to go for.

Lo-Fi Soul is a throwback album that Reinhart is able to create to feel in a time that inspires her the most with a touch that she could make. Messages of infatuation, lost love, and not settling for less than what you deserve are all universal no matter what era of music you listen to. This album is the product of a simpler time in a world where pop draws from a more modern formula.

Tracklist:

01. Deep Water
02. Oh Damn
03. Lo-Fi Soul
04. Don’t Know How to Love You
05. Strange World
06. Shook
07. Crack the Code
08. Lay It Down
09. Honey, There’s the Door
10. Broken Record
11. Some Way Some How
12. How Dare You
13. Baby Doll

OVERALL RATING
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4 stars