Album: SuG - nOiZ stAR
Date released: 14.5.2008.
Track list
1. chocoholic nOiZ
2. b.r.k
3. 虚空 (Kokuu)
4. Vi-Vi-Vi [PV]
5. ヤミツキディレイ (Yamitsuki delay)
6. 四季彩 (Shiki sai)
7. RomantiC
8. 生欲HoLiC (Seiyoku HoLiC)
9. CRIMSON SODA
10. うえすとふぁいとすと～り～ (West fight story)
11. pikaLIFE
Dear Masato (gt.), Yuji (gt.), Chiyu (bs.) and Mitsuru (dr.). Hi I'm Asari and I liked your first two singles. They were really cool (^▽^)b! Hey I was wondering if you could take a pillow and suffocate your vocalist Takeru? You know like put it on his face while he is sleeping and press it until he stops twitching? That be really great! ありがとう Love you!だいす～ぅき！ V(≧▽≦)o
Citing myself
What the fuck was I thinking? I definitely taking this back. I am really an idiot to listen to this album after their horrible I SCREAM PARTY mini-album that literally caused me headaches with it's chaotic, loud, irritating candy punk songs. But to hell I thought. Scheat and Alterna. were decent so maybe similar songs will be on the album I thought. But a Oshare kei band gone bad, always stays a Oshare kei band gone bad. They don't redeem themselves nor improve. On the contrary they get worser!They might just end up to be the next J-rock highlight.
(...) this talented new band SuG ...
(...) great singing...
(...) shows great potential this band has.
The album opens with the techno-like intro chocoholic nOiZ which actually sounds decent compared to the rest of the songs on the album (Maybe it's because Takeru DOESN'T sing?). As you can see from the song titles most of them are like addiction inspired titles thus giving another proof of my theory that this band's singer Takeru is a freaking LSD and speed junkie. The album continues with b.r.k which has got fun riffs, but horrid singing/rapping. Takeru's bunny voice makes my ears bleed every time I listen to them. b.r.k isn't bad as a song, but I think only Takeru has got the power to screw every song existing. Now that is a skill.
Kokuu has got deep, distorted riffs and sound's even a bit dark. This song is interesting primary because of the schizophrenic switches between dark singing and happy squealing. I like dark Takeru better. I hope this side of his split personality will really prevail. And I nearly choked when I saw that the obscure titled Vi-Vi-Vi has got a PV! Vi-Vi-Vi is like the fucking peak of Takeru's squealing abilities and the refrain will make your ears beg for mercy. I wouldn't play this song not even to my most notorious enemy, such is the cruelty of it.
Yamitsuki delay somehow tries to fix the damage done by Vi-Vi-Vi with pretty much good bass lines and ,for the first time on this album, decent chorus. The song has got some futuristic-like playful feel and well, Takeru's voice isn't so placed in the front. That still doesn't make his voice suck less. Shiki sai represents a somehow relaxing point on the album with reminiscing riffs. This song would sound voiceless almost perfect and relaxing. RomantiC then again just proves that the second half of the album is actually better than the first one in a way that it is tolerable. RomantiC has got this gentle, fleeting melody and probably the best singing on the entire album: gentle, quiet and floating.
Seiyoku HoLiC is the kind of serious and dramatic song every album should have (at least every Koteosa album) with roaring riffs and strong chorus. Then again you could only imagine how great this song would sound with a more maturer vocalist (though Takeru doesn't fail so much here on the chorus, he was probably sober). CRIMSON SODA (WTF?) is the band-be-growling aggressive piece that bands play in other for their spectators to break each other's bones. CRIMSON SODA is harsher and I like it harsher especially because it shows how the band consists of solid musicians stuck up with a retard singer. West Fight Story begins with this playful, funny instrumental part before turning into the merry-go-round happy song like An Cafe's Merrymaking, the one Oshare kei fans love the most. Takeru's singing really sounds like he is mocking the listener (Haha, this is what you get when you listen to us). And closing the album is another fast, bye-bye song type pikaLIFE I personally despise, but bands keep making them, just to put the cherry on top of their releases.
I am a tolerant person (I mean I have listened to this album IN WHOLE for like four times and am probably going to listen to it once again for the sake of my other reviews site) and I don't like flaming bands and releases, but fuck, this album is bad. It has got like 2-3 songs that sound decent, but most of them are just shallow, hyperactive, candy punk songs that'll just give you headaches. As I said on I SCREAM PARTY the greatest problem of this band is their damn vocalist Takeru which sounded pretty good on their first two singles but then suddenly turned bad. His bunny-voice is irritating and he can't be serious not even for a moment. God damn. With an other vocalist they'd sound at least decent, because the rest of the band can actually PLAY music.
Really, I mean really do you want to spend 42 minutes of your life on this? The most of this album is hardly tolerable. Unless you really, really like SuG.
Damn I hate bad releases. They often piss me out so much that I write bad reviews. But I have learned a few things from this:
- Immature bands never redeem for their sucky releases
- Don't trust an illiterate band that uses Z instead of S
- Reviewing music means reviewing both good and bad releases
- SuG should fire Takeru
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I gave them two stars because most of the album sucked, though it did have a few parts that were actually good.
And yes I am a tolerant person so 2 stars for tolerance.
and that album...oh my god. i really cant stand the hype about that bitches...is it because they are on psc?
But the hype about SuG still remains a mystery to me. Okay Scheat was good, Alterna. was a bit better but everything else sucked majorly. So then one could think "Okay so their music isn't that good, but they look good right?". But they're not even that good looking either, no eye-candy (except this one guy on the guitar, but he isn't something special either) if you get what I mean. So I guess it's the friggin awesome promotion they get from PSC thats making them get such attention and fans.
Though their fans must be really off-the-path to listen to such sugar-rushed pop-rock abomination. (Probably if some come here on this blog they'll have me lynched *scared*)
Well some things in life remain a mystery.
hmm, I seem to be one of the only ones that didn't mind this(then again some of the music I don't mind can make people's ears bleed so I don't have much room to talk)...The only thing I really didn't like was that if you didn't know that this was done by only one band and if Takeru's voice wasn't so recognizable, then you could almost picture most of this album being done by different bands. Some songs are quite, others have an edge to them, and then Vi-Vi-Vi's in its own catagory. This is definitely a step down for them(well a few steps, or a flight of stairs), but they haven't hit rock bottom yet; at least Chiyu can play bass. I think if Takeru got off his drugs and they all sat down and actually tried to make a really good album, they probably could do it; right now I just think they are goofing off(Really they've only been around for a little over a year and they are this popular, most bands have to work to get this much attention). I hope they all grow up a bit and soon(especially Takeru).
btw, if SuG fires Takeru, they have to fire their stylist/costume designer as well...it just keeps getting worse. My eyes hurt more than my ears.
And I agree with the visual part. Their recent look has been really more than colorful. And why are they always putting Takeru in the front? I liked their Scheat and Alterna look better (though I found Takeru's look on TOON DAILY LATESHOW PV quite cool). Still their Visuals shouldn't compensate for their downtime in music.
One thing that always bugs me about most bands is that in every picture and every video it's always the vocalist that's up front and you don't have much of a highlight on any of the other members; SuG seems to take this almost to a new level. I think it's because Takeru has a face and personality that can sell. There are soo many fan girls that freakout just by seeing Takeru. So PSC knows what sells and they put him up front, personally I wish they'd just stop that; it's a band not a solo artist. And I don't mind colorful outfits, they're amusing sometimes but again, they went overboard with this style. It's just wayy too much.
I also agree with morbiusss. I think they rushed this to get it out while everyone was still all on the train from Love Scream Party. They need to take a break from touring before they write their next bunch of songs and try to improve on their composing skills. It's sad when fans can see that this could be the next big band, and then have to see them screw it up like this.
Oh and I tried to make this album not sound so bad. If you program the songs in a different order it makes it a bit easier to listen to so that you don't have to go from Vi-Vi-Vi to ヤミツキディレイ to 四季彩 (which is seriously my least favorite part of the cd just because of the difference of the songs).