SONIC LOVER RECKLESS - PHOENIX (Review)

Whatever you say, but the 30-year frontier always changes a person. But everyone has this change in different ways. Aya Kamiki for the first 12 years of her career was another pop chick who produced one-time-listen albums. In 2015, it changed scope - now the main pattern has significantly complicated, and the lyrics have become more interesting. At first it was a band Uroboros, in which Takayoshi Omura participated. But this project did not last long. Now we see a similar project.

My rating: 81/100

Source - amazon.co.jp

Uroboros was initially doomed to a short existence - a person who yesterday came from pop music was difficult to write typical metal lirycs, and also to keep a high-ranged voice for a long time. Therefore, next project has more pop elements. At first glance, it looks boring - there standard way to hook a listeners. And if I listened once, then rating would be 50-55 out of 100. But if you listen carefully, you can notice that these girls are pretty good. A very large work of composer is noticeable. On the basis of a simple pattern, amazing compositions were created. I will say more: 99% of this result is work of composer. The remaining 1% is the clothes.

As for voice - the feelings are ambiguous. A certain musical genre is not only an hairstyle and clothes, but also a set of certain abilities. It's noticeable that vocalist is trying to apply previously obtained abilities. 12 years of career in pop music, where the requirements for vocalists are lower - and suddenly metal, where very high requirements. Applying pop singing for metal is a strange decision. Yes, compositions contain a lot of pop elements. Yes, we saw many successful examples of use pop singing in metal, for example, Fruitpochette, Land Helios or Babymetal. But it's strange decision.

Instrumental is wonderful. About such a wonderful guitarist, it's hard to say something bad - an amazing technique and exceptionally accurate performance. And where there is Miya - there is always a keyboards. Keyboards parts are inserted very successfully, complementing the beautiful imagines. This is all I can say about the instrumentalist - so beautiful performance.

I suppose that this project will not last long either - two or three years. Lovebites, where Miya is a guitarist, has a greater significance than this project. Something similar we saw with A Drop Of Joker, which was crushed by 21Grams. As for vocalist, her previous project also did not last long. However, there are reasons to assume that Uroboros was a small experiment and this project will be long-playing.