I recently picked up that Furui Riho album, and I'm also enjoying it myself! Super Star was for sure a cool track from last year, and some of the other songs on this have been really nice (didn't realize a lot of 'em were releases from a while ago, but better late than never haha). Especially with Your Love, PSYCHO and We Are... really liking Furui Riho's overall vibe, and like you've said before, her vocals are pretty fun to listen to.
Other than the fact that you're reminding me that SHISHAMO 7 came out dang near three years ago, that album kinda came and went for me personally, as much as it pains me to say (lol). I might have to just revisit it and give it a proper listen, but it does feel like I haven't been following this band as much as before, for whatever reason. But SHISHAMO 8 does have some cool stuff on it and to me, it's yet another compilation of songs that both shows off their recent matureness while also kinda reminding us of their musical roots from before. "Nantonaku" is a pretty sweet/somber track, like you mentioned, and I always enjoy whenever they pull out the piano like in "Kirakira" (and even in "Saikou Sokudo", which is a bop). And at the same time, I feel like long-time fans, or maybe even ones who haven't touched a SHISHAMO album in a good while, would appreciate certain tracks on 8 since "Watashi no Uchuu" and "Watashi no Mamade" legitimately sound like songs you'd hear on SHISHAMO 4 + 5 (both of which came out almost 6/7 years ago). I haven't gone through the whole thing yet but yep, I can already tell I'm gonna spend a good amount of time with it.
The @onefive album is also one I was looking forward to this month, and I'm definitely liking their stuff as of late. As much as I enjoy the upbeat and palatable nature of "MIRAI-ZU", some of their other songs that go harder with the beats and lean more into the 'K-poppiness' feel more preferable to me, especially since they express it so well. I absolutely love "Like A" and "Mr.Gorgeous", "Last Blue" kinda sounded silly at first but it definitely grew on me later on, and "Chocolove" is 100% a banger. Also "F.A.F.O" is a bit of a funny one to look back at, especially now listening to Awich, as well as hearing ARU/ASU do a cover of "Doreni Shiyokana"... I think onefive could've gotten away with saying a few swears in that track :P But yeah, this group is really nice and I've started to follow them a bit more lately, thanks to their music (also have taken a liking to MOMO, on top of my SOYO oshi-ism lol)
Great showcase for this month, the other two you mentioned are cool as well ("Odorakuen" in particular sounds sick, and I'm liking CLAN QUEEN's male/female vocals)! On my end, the new FRUITS ZIPPER album is another one that was on my radar for a bit now, which should be a fun listen.
I was actually surprised too that PYSCHO even made it on here 'cause like you I thought it was already too *old* of a release. That and, thematically I didn't think it was gonna be a good fit in the album considering how her more recent releases were sounding. But after the fact now that I've listened to Love One Another a fair bit the song does end up giving the album a neat little twist.
Ngl I did find it funny that I was featuring a SHISHAMO album *and* an @onefive album this month yeah (XD). But yeah, I knew 7 came out some time before already but I didn't expect it to be 3 years after actually checking the release dates, lol. I do find it cool that we got SCANDAL and SaiSai releasing stuff just recently and now SHISHAMO are too as well. It's like I'm back in 2016 all over again, Haha!
100% yeah, Like A definitely needs it's own PV, and Chance low key has been just a fun pick me up kind of song too. I wanna say a huge part of why I gravitate towards Ring Donuts the most though is we do get to hear more of the girls' singing on there compared to their other songs, and I do want them to explore that a bit more in future releases as opposed to leaning further into production. Part of the reason too why I still think BBB is one of their best. I wish they still did those individual PV versions of songs like they did in Underground for Chocolove. Would love to see a SOYO ver.
Thanks! Likewise, thanks for checking it out! CLAN QUEEN's an early favorite this year, and they did a terrific job with their album re-recording of an older track (LOL) so yeah, hats off to them for a banger release in VeiL and I hope they're able to follow that up sooner rather than later.
I recently picked up that Furui Riho album, and I'm also enjoying it myself! Super Star was for sure a cool track from last year, and some of the other songs on this have been really nice (didn't realize a lot of 'em were releases from a while ago, but better late than never haha). Especially with Your Love, PSYCHO and We Are... really liking Furui Riho's overall vibe, and like you've said before, her vocals are pretty fun to listen to.
Other than the fact that you're reminding me that SHISHAMO 7 came out dang near three years ago, that album kinda came and went for me personally, as much as it pains me to say (lol). I might have to just revisit it and give it a proper listen, but it does feel like I haven't been following this band as much as before, for whatever reason. But SHISHAMO 8 does have some cool stuff on it and to me, it's yet another compilation of songs that both shows off their recent matureness while also kinda reminding us of their musical roots from before. "Nantonaku" is a pretty sweet/somber track, like you mentioned, and I always enjoy whenever they pull out the piano like in "Kirakira" (and even in "Saikou Sokudo", which is a bop). And at the same time, I feel like long-time fans, or maybe even ones who haven't touched a SHISHAMO album in a good while, would appreciate certain tracks on 8 since "Watashi no Uchuu" and "Watashi no Mamade" legitimately sound like songs you'd hear on SHISHAMO 4 + 5 (both of which came out almost 6/7 years ago). I haven't gone through the whole thing yet but yep, I can already tell I'm gonna spend a good amount of time with it.
The @onefive album is also one I was looking forward to this month, and I'm definitely liking their stuff as of late. As much as I enjoy the upbeat and palatable nature of "MIRAI-ZU", some of their other songs that go harder with the beats and lean more into the 'K-poppiness' feel more preferable to me, especially since they express it so well. I absolutely love "Like A" and "Mr.Gorgeous", "Last Blue" kinda sounded silly at first but it definitely grew on me later on, and "Chocolove" is 100% a banger. Also "F.A.F.O" is a bit of a funny one to look back at, especially now listening to Awich, as well as hearing ARU/ASU do a cover of "Doreni Shiyokana"... I think onefive could've gotten away with saying a few swears in that track :P But yeah, this group is really nice and I've started to follow them a bit more lately, thanks to their music (also have taken a liking to MOMO, on top of my SOYO oshi-ism lol)
Great showcase for this month, the other two you mentioned are cool as well ("Odorakuen" in particular sounds sick, and I'm liking CLAN QUEEN's male/female vocals)! On my end, the new FRUITS ZIPPER album is another one that was on my radar for a bit now, which should be a fun listen.
I was actually surprised too that PYSCHO even made it on here 'cause like you I thought it was already too *old* of a release. That and, thematically I didn't think it was gonna be a good fit in the album considering how her more recent releases were sounding. But after the fact now that I've listened to Love One Another a fair bit the song does end up giving the album a neat little twist.
Ngl I did find it funny that I was featuring a SHISHAMO album *and* an @onefive album this month yeah (XD). But yeah, I knew 7 came out some time before already but I didn't expect it to be 3 years after actually checking the release dates, lol. I do find it cool that we got SCANDAL and SaiSai releasing stuff just recently and now SHISHAMO are too as well. It's like I'm back in 2016 all over again, Haha!
100% yeah, Like A definitely needs it's own PV, and Chance low key has been just a fun pick me up kind of song too. I wanna say a huge part of why I gravitate towards Ring Donuts the most though is we do get to hear more of the girls' singing on there compared to their other songs, and I do want them to explore that a bit more in future releases as opposed to leaning further into production. Part of the reason too why I still think BBB is one of their best. I wish they still did those individual PV versions of songs like they did in Underground for Chocolove. Would love to see a SOYO ver.
Thanks! Likewise, thanks for checking it out! CLAN QUEEN's an early favorite this year, and they did a terrific job with their album re-recording of an older track (LOL) so yeah, hats off to them for a banger release in VeiL and I hope they're able to follow that up sooner rather than later.
Ooooh, will check that one too then!