smooth, and plays with some rather interesting sounds in addition to the conventional band setup. Zero's final moments fade into "Torch", which I'd class as an "upbeat mid-tempo" song, if that makes sense. The biggest highlight to the song is quite honestly the instrumental, which is unlike anything that Motoo has ever composed before it's lush and varied (and a little celtic-influenced at times), yet still keeps the band at the core of the song's sound. Zero slows us down quite a bit (I'm honestly surprised the transition here worked as well as it did) and finally gives us a song that doesn't really reach beyond mid-tempo at its highest moments. I was kind of hoping that there'd be a track like this on the album, honestly, since it so rarely appears outside of their single back-logs.įollowing it up we have "Zero" (which begins the third movement), which was the theme song to the video game "Final Fantasy Type-0", undoubtedly the biggest hit of the era. morning glow reminds me of the style of some of their more recent B-sides, like "good friends" and "Aruku Yuurei", so if you liked those, you'll probably like this song too, and vice-versa. This leads us to the sixth track, "morning glow", which is a bright folk-rock track that just makes me think of "the West" for some reason.
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"Last One" is probably one of my favorite new songs, since it's just so fun to listen to, plus Motoo sounds particularly great on it. It brings back the style of guitar-ing that was really prominent on songs like "Hammer Song to Itami no Tou" and "Kasabutabutabu" and is just as playful as the latter song, with a bit more rock sensibility and motion infused into it. Southern Cross is followed up by "Last One", which is probably the only song on RAY that I feel could also fit on another Bump of Chicken album (that being "orbital period"). While there were a couple lyrics that sounded a bit odd for the rhythm, I felt that this was a pretty nice song on the whole. However, this is a bit deceptive, as the song does pick up as it proceeds on, eventually ending up pretty close to up-tempo itself, even including a nice guitar solo.
After being greeted by a loud guitar riff, Southern Cross launches into a softer, mid-tempo song that seems to be slowing us down a bit after the first couple of really upbeat tracks. Ray ends what I consider to be the first movement of the album (I feel as though there are four total) and the fourth song, "Southern Cross", ushers us into the second. It's playful, it's happy, and yet it's both instrumentally adventurous and, from what I can gather from my rudimentary Japanese knowledge, much deeper than it appears at first glance. Overall, Niji wo Matsu Hito is a pretty good song and continues the mood set forth in the album's intro, which is in turn, passed on to the album's title track, "ray". I'd loosely classify this as a mixture of synth-rock with a pop-rock anthem, with the most notable difference from the version we've all heard thus far being that the balance seems to have been altered slightly so that the song's electronic elements are more predominant.
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Next up, we have "Niji wo Matsu Hito", which was used as the theme for the "Gatchaman" movie back in August. WILL is both alive and immersive, definitely fulfilling its purpose of pulling you in and preparing for the rest of what's to come.
RAY starts off with "WILL", an interestingly playful mix of electronics and guitar that seems to invoke the signature space theme that Bump of Chicken have carried through most of their albums.
Nonetheless, I think that's enough lead-up - from here forward, I'm going to review the album track-by-track and then give my opinion on the release overall (I can't promise that I'm not going to be a little bias), both alone and in comparison to their past couple of studio sets.
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This week has been full of a lot of excitement and trepidation for me, since even though I was extremely hyped up for this release, that can sometimes get the better of you and make you disappointed when you first listen to an album. This is an album that I've been looking forward to for a long, long time now, ever since it was announced back at the end of October.
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