Okay I just got Riyu’s new album Every Struggle. The album is quite nice, so I did a review.
Here you go! And no offensive comments please.
RIYU KOSAKA : EVERY STRUGGLE REVIEW
M.o.n.s.t.e.r’s “FED” opening is pure garbage. But the main song is really nice. The opening is just redundant.Maybe it is just tentacle monsters……..or are the monsters fed wrong stuff? Might be feeding the tentacle monsters garbage made the song’s opening sound like regurgitation. Lucky I didn’t skip the track.And yeah it might be used for Kamen Rider Kiva. It is a pity I never follow tokasatsu shows. I find them lame.
Danzai’s remix at the start is great. But the main part’s drums is a little too heavy at 224kbps at 44khz. Such songs with vagueness and underlaid meanings should not have too pure sounds. The guitar instrumental is finally CLEARER. Goodness I had a hard time with the notes.
Hakushi is lovely. She should have done it with Sayaka and Risa. Better when sung by Risa. I find the format of the song quite alot like GS’s Meteor.
I placed it on 4th of my favourite songs after Izayoi, Hatsukoi/Hosoi Kusari and Always/Matenrou, putting down PS to the 5th. It is the 3rd Riyu song that made it to my list of top 10 favourites for J-artists.
I never liked Doberman. And listening it to it again makes no difference. Sucks.
Memory is so kiddish. And very kawaii. It liveliness is placed on purpose after a hopeless song like Doberman (hopeless as in lacking in that emotion, and to me it is with the other meaning of hopeless).I added it to my list of favourite Riyu songs (which current only contains Hakushi, Platinum Smile and Kokoro no Ato). Somehow I seem to draw an opposite to Memories played by Richard Clayderman……
3D Heart sounds like LOVE SHINE 06. Thank goodness she is still been infected by that insanely cute mindset after Noria left.Yeah and we know when she goes like a rubber duck being squished when she sings like this.
Fall in fall in love, (in)to happy happy daze(days)…Naoki you better put this in DDR, Pop N Music and IIDX or I will set killer bunnies on you!
Platinum Smile, my favourite Riyu song. The pitching and music is just beautiful, too bad the original cover album made her look so emo that I want that bike to run over her.
Kokoro No Ato. The opening for the anime Mokke. I simply love the music, it is like purer version of Danzai.
EASTERN SKY SHOULD BE USED IN GUNDAM 00 OP3 IN SEASON 2!!!! This track is just PERFECT for a Gundam or Code Geass OP. Why can’t we have Gundam songs like this instead of crap like Daybreak’s Bell? SUNRISE YOU LISTENED TO THIS SONG YET? HELOOOOO??
Can we get Rie Sugumiya to sing Sunny The Ride instead for one of Hayate No Gotoku’s OP? Reminds me of one of the songs by An-cafe. Forgot what is the name. Quite nice. It is another “crowd rave” song like Dead Beat.
Every Struggle has quite a sad but beautiful tune. Quite a nice end off for the album.
Quite a nice album. Maybe I should keep following her music.
