NEWS – Color (Kurayami Monogatari)

Solarblade over at Kurayami Monogatari takes a shot at reviewing NEWS’ third album, Color. When I asked him to review this I wasn’t expecting him to, and I definitely was not expecting him to like it. There’s a few songs on the album that aren’t to his tastes, but his overall opinion on the album is positive, and that is amazing to me.

When this album came out I was still pretty new to NEWS, other than my obvious choice of a favorite I didn’t really know who to like, and why I should like them, and yet I still decided which tracks I liked on the album based on who my favorites were at that time. It really is a breath of fresh air to read a review by someone who doesn’t know the group at all; no bias towards songs based on who he likes the most, it was certainly interesting to see which tracks came up on top.

I was really, really glad to see that he liked Ordinary, which was probably the only track on the album I didn’t like because of the song, and not just the person singing it. However, I’ve really grown to like it recently and its now one of my highest played songs on itunes. I laughed that he doesn’t like Summer Time–It’s bubblegum pop as it comes and it just doesn’t suit guys at all, so it’s obvious that it wouldn’t be to everyones tastes.

Like I said, I’m really glad the overall opinion on this album is positive. Hopefully at least one more person checked out the album because of this review.