I'm bored of the days where my curiosity roams freeAnd trying to chase only one thing.In fact, it's really hard, and I need to become serious."Rely on my feelings", is what I used to think.Of course it's not a disaster...It's just that reality always surpasses my imaginationAnd I fall just 1mm short.
*This last train is bumpy...But even so, I want to get far away.Ahhh, a detour; Ahhh, it's like a dreamEven after many years it's still difficult and uncomfortable
Ahhh, it never ends. Enough, enough, it's not okay!Why can't I ever get these feelings across like this? Ahhh, I need to redo it; Ahhh, repeat it all over againGradually I get closer, since there's only one way to goAhhh, let's go back; Ahhh, come on!*
If I try to drift away from that faraway place,It might become interesting, fun, and enjoyable - butWhen I go to other places, nothing changes.Nothing happens if I run from the risks.Of course it's not a disaster...It's just that reality always surpasses my imaginationAnd I still fall just 1mm short.
*Repeat (Transl. Xiratava)
― abcfsk, Thursday, 5 September 2013 02:07 (ten years ago) link
This is the only version of "Spending All My Time" on (UK) Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/track/3G6J53jZSTURPkZXC4u2o1
I like it!
― going (to) hell for pleather (seandalai), Friday, 6 September 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
hah, I've often wondered what the story is behind seemingly endless 'orgel sound j-pop' xylophone covers
― original bgm, Saturday, 7 September 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
Cash in on things that don't exist there otherwise (or that does) and some people might search for I assume.
Bought tickets to see Perfume for the third time this year.. but this time on a real big scale - the Osaka Dome as part of their JP dome tour.
― abcfsk, Monday, 9 September 2013 09:09 (ten years ago) link
Magic of Love (Album Mix)
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 16 September 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
Loving
― tarping, Monday, 16 September 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that's great
― original bgm, Monday, 16 September 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Very nice.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 16 September 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
album BANGS
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 30 September 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
It's euphoric, heavier, dancier than JPN. I almost made a thread for it in my ecstasy yesterday. Furikaeru to iru yo is classic Perfume mid-tempo. Party Maker is guaranteed insane in their dome shows. The album mixes freshen things up so much.
― abcfsk, Monday, 30 September 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
liking this but I'm actually a little cold on the bangers. but not ruling them growing on me out yet.
very into the more restrained ones like "furikaeru..." and "dream land." "sleeping beauty" is pleasantly reminding me of orbital, so that's great too.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
First thing I did was compare the single versions of songs to the album mixes - I actually think the single versions (especially "Spending All My Time") are superior in every case. I also wish the album included "I'm Not Okay." But I'm gonna be giving it a serious listen on the train home tonight and am very excited.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
i prefer the album mixes at this point; think the single mix of "magic of love" really gets in the way of the lightness of that melody
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
XP "I'm Not Okay" is included though.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
OK, on first front-to-back listen, this might be my Album of the Year. The only thing I really don't like is the album mix of "Spending All My Time," which lacks the hypnotic looping quality of the original. But so much of it is incredibly hard dancefloor stomping stuff, much more like Capsule than JPN. Love this record.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah, this one really does blur the lines between what nakata's doing for perfume and capsule. I'm just not so sure that's a good thing.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 02:42 (ten years ago) link
this album is indeed incredible
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 05:13 (ten years ago) link
I don't know if heavy=Capsule. Fan favorite album GAME was heavier, "edge" is Perfume's live centerpiece. I think Perfume have preserved all their personality here. Some of that is about the songs' emotional core exclusive to Perfume I talked about above.
Also:
“[We and Nakata] had a dinner where we discussed about the album. All of what we discussed there was fulfilled. We requested like ‘we’d like a track that can match the dome concert where we can build large sets’ or ‘can we have a song in which we can make various directions, rather than just dancing?’ and so on. All of the new songs on this album are very suited with our requests. Some sound soft, some sound majestic.”
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 05:37 (ten years ago) link
I'm gonna try to have an in-depth review posted by Friday. I'll link it here. Where's that quote from?
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 10:32 (ten years ago) link
http://fuckyeahystk.tumblr.com/post/62687400985
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 10:44 (ten years ago) link
yeah, this one is growing on me big time. it isn't really as monolithic as I initially found it... just maybe a little more monolithic than usual. this is still highly melodic, and yeah, still very much a perfume album. I'd say it's prob on par with JPN but not quite up to GAME standards.
still think this could use "hurly burly"!
― original bgm, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
I always like about one or two songs on any Capsule record, especially the ones that border more on being songs than relentless loops and builds, but even then it's tough to make it through more than two of them in a row. With club music there's that thin line between gratifying and generic and a lot of this new Perfume is walking it for me. But yeah it's the kind of line where I'm fascinatedly listening the most to the tracks that I really have deep problems with.
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
As promised, a link to my review. Apologies for cheesy headline.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 4 October 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
Just wanna pop in to say that "Butterfly" has some of the trippest synths/production I've ever heard, I never see that tune mentioned but damn is it something
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
ya I love that one. the constant ascending/descending loopy propulsion!
― original bgm, Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
Good pick. Those synths remind me a little of Larry Heard, something like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FkVaoe_BSE
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 30 January 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
i've been obsessing over "glitter" and "nee" from jpn lately -- the production on those is amazing
― clouds, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:19 (ten years ago) link
US TOUR DATES (NY & LA only, unsurprisingly)
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 01:01 (nine years ago) link
New single "Cling Cling" is pretty good, if a little Kyary Pamyu Pamyu-ish. Don't love the B-side, "Hold Your Hand," but the other two tracks are good.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
Translation: Level3 will be released in the US, with bonus tracks, on Astralwerks.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
yuhhhhhhh
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 04:26 (nine years ago) link
worst perfume album + edm bros remix of one of their worst singles does not really seem like the best intro to perfume
― original bgm, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 05:16 (nine years ago) link
what
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 06:10 (nine years ago) link
level3 is their best since game imo
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 06:11 (nine years ago) link
triangle too uneven, jpn too scattered, level3 actually flows pretty nicely as an album
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 06:13 (nine years ago) link
jpn IS scattered and super front-loaded but the highs are higher. there isn't a "my color" or "nee" on level3 and the overt edm-isms really sour it for me
I always forget traingle exists. it's like their new jersey! it might be better than that one.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
i love every song on both level3 and jpn and feel like i hear something new every time i listen to them.
― clouds, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
I like most of em on jpn except for that one short one that sounds like music for a children's bday party. but I do wish there were more in the buzzing electro chiptune j-pop style that dominates the first half of the record.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
whoopso, "a child's bday party" I mean
― original bgm, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
2nd half is cool too tho. and "spice" is one of my faves.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
mirai no museum was made for a doraemon movie -- don't think it should've been on the album but it's easy to skip.
― clouds, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
oh wait yr'e talking about "toki no hari" right
haha yes
― original bgm, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
man, why isn't "hurly burly" a bonus track on the US version? what were they thinking leaving it off the ablum in the first place??
― original bgm, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
In Tokyo at the moment and saw multiple coloured vinyl options for Level 3, but I didn’t buy it which is telling as I would have bought the previous 3 without even thinking about it.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 21 September 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
Just got press list confirmation for the NYC show on 11/15, and possibly an interview (roundtable style, multiple writers). Incredibly excited about this.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 17 October 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
YEAH
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 17 October 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
Who else is going? Mildly curious
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
B-)
― original bgm, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
Roundtable interview is confirmed for tomorrow afternoon. I'm coming up with 2-3 questions, though I'll probably only get to ask one.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 15 November 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link