Hardcore Ayu fans will get this, regardless. For just over S$30, even if most of us – the fans – have already had most of her albums (I have close to 300 songs of hers that amount to 23 hours of continuous enjoyment), this box-set is a very nice to have. It has: A beautifully [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Music Reviews'
Ayumi Hamasaki Complete Singles – Is This for You?
November 10th, 2008 27 Comments
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Best of Olivia Ong – Didn’t Know That She Is a Singaporean Singer, Gasp!
October 15th, 2008 68 Comments
I may as well be the last Singaporean on earth to have heard of Olivia Ong. You know what it is like when you turn on your radio and people would ask, “Who’s that singer”? I got that a lot (from non-Singaporeans) when I put on Olivia’s compilation album, in a positive way. I confess [...]
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Rimi Natsukawa 夏川りみ – Self Selection – My Comfort Album
September 25th, 2008 5 Comments
There is comfort food. And there is comfort music too, I reckon. You know how it is like when every time you listen to a particular song or album and that triggers a particular memory of yours? Maybe “Last Christmas” was played when you gave your first kiss away, maybe “I Don’t Wanna Miss A [...]
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Anna Tsuchiya – Strip Me? Where Do You Draw the Lines?
August 16th, 2008 1 Comment
I thought long and hard before buying the new album by a Russian/American/Japanese singer, model, and actress Anna Tsuchiya (土屋アンナ). Exactly how do you draw the line between a good rock abum and a not so good vocalist (*ahem* I am looking at my band)? Call it a Japanese album when 98% of the lyrics [...]
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Fredrika Stahl – Tributaries – A Playfully Girlie Pop Jazz Album Now With a Different Sound
July 26th, 2008 15 Comments
Young Swedish pop jazz singer and songwriter Fredrika Stahl’s 2nd album “Tributaries” got me initially disoriented and I couldn’t pinpoint what stands out in this new collection of songs. There seems to be a departure of style as this new album has a more fresh varied upbeat theatrical sound while her debut is more instrumentally driven [...]
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Hilary Hahn and Natalie Zhu – Mozart Violin Sonatas
June 23rd, 2008 23 Comments
It is of great pleasure that I finally get down to writing a blog entry on classical music. When there is something that timeless, it’s easy to put the idea off to another day, and another day. Most of you may not know that deep inside of this metal head, rocker wannabe of mine is [...]
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Mai Kuraki (倉木麻衣) – One Life – Quite Possibly Her Spiciest Piece of Work
June 15th, 2008 1 Comment
I made a promise to myself that I will contribute my thought on Mai Kuraki’s 7th album to the online community back in March this year. Her albums don’t come cheap. The RRP are S$72 (USD 52) and S$52 (USD 38) after discount. And you can’t pick a random Japanese album to sample in HMV. So what I [...]
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Utada Hikaru – Heart Station – Classic It May Not But What A Soulful Voice She Has!
May 8th, 2008 14 Comments
If you have purchased Utada Hikaru’s latest album lately, you may wish to check if track 10 is truncated towards the end of the song. The friendly assistant at HMV (Citilink) was ripping the plastic covers of more than 10 of her CDs open including a newer batch and an older batch and they all have the [...]
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