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Nomoto Karia "Karly"
Last night I received the new Nomoto Karia album "Karly", and this morning I had my first listen on the train.
Her first full-length album includes 4 songs from the previous "Aria, Karia, Maria ep" (available only on vinyl), and 4 short spoken tracks (Karly 1 - 4, featuring not herself but other people giving her love advices and such, e.g. "Hey, see that rich playboy over there?"), plus 9 brand new songs!
Out of my favorites so far, the three successive songs "Amsterdam", "Napoleon Bonaparte" and "kinō no tsuzuki" ("tomorrow is just another day") towards the end really sound like Pizzicato Five to me, I guess mostly reminding me of the self-titled ("TM") 1999 album.
I also love "Rock Steady" and "jiyūdōri no gogo" ("freedom street afternoon"), the latter which is an Ai George cover with really great synth.
At this very moment, my favorite song is "Amsterdam", for its groovy bass line, synths, brass and the funky snare sound.
♪ 14時発のフランクフルト経由、アムステルダム行きのチケット ♬
The high quality hard cover book is also quite something. It contains pretty much nothing but full-page pictures (except for the album's liner notes), about half of them of Karia topless (though not letting anything show) in sexy poses, and the rest being very nice fashion shots.
By the way, there will be an Ai George greatest hits album coming out on 9/1, and I wish "jiyūdōri no gogo" will be included. I'll have to check that out anyway since similar gems may be included. It will probably be added to my agenda once the track list is available.
Posted on July 29, 2004 at 12:00 | Tweet
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