The old five-point scale has been retired in favor of just rating stuff 1-10, which allows me a much more nuanced final rating. Still don't take it that seriously. Most of these come from my own collection, so the grades skew rather high. Your results may vary if you send me stuff to review.
Each album is given three Essential tracks, my personal favorites, regardless of how weird and inconsequential they are. The Quintessential pick is the one I think best represents the album as a whole, so you can try one song instead of a whole album of songs. Non-Essential picks range from merely disappointing to outright unlistenable.
I don't know anything about anime.
Let me be the first to tell you that the marketing for MoriHime is a crock of shit. "All self-produced by the otaku band themselves"--these moody, long-haired, Pocky-eating maplebacks couldn't mix pancake batter, let alone a record, so yours truly was actually brought on to run the boards and mix the damn thing. The shameless snubbing and lack of credit has only slightly soured me on MoriHime the record and MoriHime the band. I mean, they have one hell of a musical range, a handsome frontman who sure can wail, and they like Limp Bizkit. These guys have the power to run the world--let's not hold vanity against them. This is an album that will appeal to just about anyone who likes a good, overly-dramatic, partially-in-English rock record, doubly so if they have a strong opinion on subs versus dubs or remember Area 11. Yeesh.
The violent drum sounds, the vacuum-sealed guitar tones, the glittery pianos that leave a trail of stardust in their wake, song titles that are half-moon runes and half-awkwardly capitalized English words--this is music for people who like their women 2D, if you know what I mean. It's not all bog standard Wapanese anime opener rock, though. Frontman Moritani Orihime weaves in plenty of off-kilter, "that shouldn't work" vocal harmonies on songs like "Koishiteru" and the cosplay convention anthem "Heat Death", "DIGiTIZE" loudly hogs the DDR machine, and "FINAL STAND" marries a thicc Korn bassline with erratic percussion and mile-a-minute anxious rapping that bleed into each other to great effect. At their best, MoriHime dazzle you with their drama and enrapture you with their hooks. At their worst, they simply rewrite the soundtrack from Sonic Adventure 2. But hey, you could do a lot worse than that.
| Essential: | Quintessential: | Non-Essential: | Rating: |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Koishiteru", "yozakura", "FINAL STAND" | "SHOOTING☆STAR" | "All Creation" |  |
| Download from MoriHime's Bandcamp | |||
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