“How Crazy Your Love” is YUI’s fifth studio album. I am a fan. Hence you can imagine how painful it was for me to wait till the record hits the store here in Singapore when not too far away, in a place called Hong Kong, the album not only comes with a CD, but also [...]
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Anna Tsuchiya – Rule – Coming Out From The Nana Personality
October 7th, 2010 No Comments
I was so excited about Anna Tsuchiya (土屋アンナ) so much so that when Amazon.co.jp alerted me of her 3rd album, I quickly dived in and made a purchase, when I was holidaying in Hong Kong. Much cheaper than to buy the imported version in a local music store. Much faster too. It takes ages for [...]
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Anna Tsuchiya – Nudy Show! – Catchy, Very Catchy
September 7th, 2010 No Comments
As the vocalist behind one of the two bands in the popular Japanese anime series “Nana”, at times I wonder if Anna Tsuchiya has made the anime famous or it is the other way round. I think it is a bit of both. Her second album “Nudy Show!” (2008) follows closely with the style of [...]
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YUI – Holidays In The Sun – A Pleasant Album, Still Same Style
August 2nd, 2010 2 Comments
Nowadays, I seldom write about the music I listen to. Not as often anyway. With legal and unlimited music download, it matters little if it is a good album, or a bad one. Because worst case, I delete the album off my digital storage. On average, I listen to an album once, or twice, and then move [...]
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Jewel – Sweet And Wild – The Title Says It All
July 20th, 2010 No Comments
If I could hand out album of the year award, I would seriously consider Jewel’s “Sweet and Wild” as one of the nominees. That is based on the 8,000 songs I have downloaded over one year (thank you Nokia). If you have heard Jewel singing live – which I did when I was working in [...]
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Kylie Minogue – Aphrodite – How Powerful Her Celebrity Branding Is
July 17th, 2010 6 Comments
If you stop for a moment and ponder why one would buy into Kylie’s music, I reckon that has to do with the overall branding than the creativity and the technical execution of her music. Using the image of the goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality – Aphrodite – as the title of her 11th [...]
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Ayumi Hamasaki – Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus – Another Great Production
May 5th, 2010 6 Comments
At the counter, the sales assistance hesitated for a brief moment and he asked, “Do you want the poster?”. Do I want the poster?! I am a fan. Hit me with one! Really. Do I want the poster? I asked Cynthia where I should paste it. Dining area, I suggested. She frowned and counter-suggested the [...]
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Love Psychedelico – Abbot Kinney – An Uplifting Album
February 16th, 2010 No Comments
Celebrating their 10 years of music career, the Japanese band Love Psychedelico has released a new album “Abbot Kinney”. I still like their debut “The Greatest Hits” the most (how appropriately titled!). But “Abbot Kinney” is growing on me. I guess I was looking for that dark melodic track “Last Smile” in this new album [...]
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Lisa Ekdahl – Give Me That Slow Knowing Smile – It’s Simply Heavenly Beautiful
July 16th, 2009 6 Comments
I would love to give her that slow knowing smile and make her say hey, hey, hey, hey. And we would say oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Just like her song. From the whistling in the beginning of “Give Me That Slow Knowing Smile”, the simple repetitive chords of an acoustic guitar and the harmonizing [...]
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Korean / Japanese Singer BoA’s First English Album Is Now On Our Daily Playlist – Best&USA
May 30th, 2009 2 Comments
I’ve said it before and I will say it again. She is young, she is talented, she is ambitious, and at the age of 22, there are few artists who have released a dozen of commercially successful albums in three different languages. As mentioned in my previous post (April 2008), I had my hopes and fears [...]
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