[album review] MEG - BEAM

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[album review] MEG - BEAM

By johpan ⋅ December 20, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Tracklist:
1] 甘い贅沢 (Amai Zeitaku)
2] IN YOUR EYES
3] GIRLY STEP
4] LOVE LETTER
5] dreamin dreamin
6] OK
7] MODEL
8] ROMANTIKA
9] LOVE LETTER (ajapai remix)
10] GIRLY STEP (CLAZZIQUAI PROJECT remix)

I think I first heard of MEG from lurking the contemode community on lj and thought I should give her a listen since she teamed up with Nakata-san. The first song I heard from her was OK and that it was. Actually, it was more than OK; I LOVE it. The dancing nekos in the PV are awesome. Oh and the kokoro pantsu… *nosebleed*

It’s weird… MEG’s voice has a tinge of annoying but for some reason, I can’t get enough of it. I can’t put a word to the type of quality I hear in MEG’s voice. Maybe it’s cutesy; except when I think cutesy, Momoko or Koharu comes into mind. Maybe it’s a little pointed (I just loaded up Toshiko’s dreamin dreamin and there’s a softness and calm in her voice that just relaxes me so). Pointed sounds about right. Having a pointed voice is a double-edged sword in MEG’s case. dreamin dreamin is delivered better by the softer Toshiko though a song like OK would be more down MEG’s pointed alley.

Anyway, on with the individual track comments. Amai Zeitaku started off the album strong. The Nakata-style just bleeds from this track. It’s not that I’m not a fan of ballads and downtempo tracks but I usual like knowing what’s going on lyrically before I really comment on tracks like that from other languages, but in a strictly musical sense, I skip thru IN YOUR EYES and LOVE LETTER. Nothing really excites the senses. GIRLY STEP is a toss up; I’m either in the mood to listen to it or not, though mostly not. I prefer Toshiko’s dreamin dreamin like I said above but I suppose - like girly step - it depends on my mood. OK’s my 2nd favourite track on this album. So infectious. So cute. Need translation. MODEL is definitely number one for me. Someone from contemode said to check it out in a post. The first 56 seconds were downtempo and I personally couldn’t see where Nakata was going to take the song. I was doing my run through of the album in the subway on the way to school a few weeks back and I had to pull out my PSP to find out which song it was because it was so awesome. I see stepchart potential. Finally, ROMANTIKA bleeds Nakata-style as well. I loved this song from the start with Amai Zeitaku since they’re the songs that sound most like my favourite capsule songs.

I like the remixes… kinda… they’re negligible. I can listen to them without noticing though when they do come up, I tend to skip… unless I’m coding or blogging or surfing.

*sigh*

I really like the upbeat and happy tracks. Big basslines and fast tempos (as fast as techno-pop goes anyway… lol >_> what, 135bpm? 140 if you’re lucky?). I guess that’s why I listen to drum and bass, breakcore, trancecore, and freeform. That and you can sing whatever genre you want, if you have a knock-out voice, I will love you. MEG isn’t quite knock-out vocally. Though if you’re a techno-pop fan, give her a chance.

Random sauce: MEG on theppn wiki