Review of Sincrea's Pandora Album [26 Dec 2009|04:43pm] mishiro_san I got the album today and I have to admit it was different from their first album "Atlas". The sound of the new "Pandora" album is a little bit more hard rock than "Atlas". "Atlas" is a little bit more pop rock to me. They are often described as a band similar to Janne Da Arc in sound and the vocalist Hal's voice can sound like Yasu sometimes. Kiyo, the keyboardist from JDA, also produced the sound, arranged the album, provide the keyboard portion to their songs, and produced the single "Sakura Mai Chiru Setsu Ni Kimi Ga Yume Mita Koto" 1) Transient Gig #3 opening the box- It's instrumental. You can hear the keyboard and a woman talking. It has a kinda like a trance dance beat mixed in too. 2) Pandora 21 Same as the Xmas Day single 3)Garasu no Namida Same as single 4)Fantastic Voyage The beginning instrumental sounds very JDA to me kinda rock/jazzy. The first verse started off slow. Hal's voice was quite soothing. Then when it got to chorus is very upbeat/catchy and pop-rock. 5)Sakura Mai Chiru Setsu Ni Kimi Ga Yume Mita Koto Same as their single. Idk this song sounds very indies to me. I think it must be the guitar portion and the voice sounds very visual kei to me as well which is strange since Hal has a very nice voice for a visual kei vocalist. It's not the typical nasally or overly deep voice. 6)Please Please Me The sound is a bit harder. I suppose this is their darker song. It sounds very yasu-like to me. The guitar solo was nice too but then again guitarist, tomo created the music for this song. 7) Mune Ippai no Ai O The new single for the album. I saw the clip of their pv of it on youtube and it was them performing this live. The melody is very nice. It's not like a ballad but still relatively soft and soothing and very pop rock-like. I can imagine this song being something you listen to live with lighters in the air or people waving their hands in the air. I can also imagine this song would sound nice if they had an accoustic version. 8)La Paloma Very upbeat and catchy. "Shalala Paloma" gets stuck in your head very easily. The song overall is very poppish as well. 9)Xmas Day (Pandora version) This is another previous single but it's the album version of the song but the guitar solo is also softer and not as prominent. You have to listen carefully to hear the electric guitar. 10)Ageha Jo The sound is very nice. It's hard to describe the sound but for some reason it seems as if they're trying to channel the rhythm of traditional music. It's not a very poppish song but sounds very indies. 11) Suicide Island The beginning is very hard rock. It sounds like an indies visual kei band type of song too. 12)Overdrive Same as Sakura Mai chiru setsu ni Yume mita koto single 13)Candle Same as Garasu no Hana single 14) Transient Gig #4 closing the box- piano music with a distant female voice Overall I like that it was very different from "Atlas." I think I like the variety of "Atlas". But I like how "Pandora" has a very prominent visual sound while in "Atlas" you can determine the ballad (and I love it when this band does ballad.) The cd also came with a copy Vinyl Syndicate. I guess it advertises/models Sex Pot Revenge clothes. The models for this issue includes D-Boys' Shunji Igarashi (which is similar to johnnys in a sense they model in the same magazines as them ie potato, wink up, etc...) AAA's Misako Uno, actor Kouhei Takeda, Gara from Merry, 12012, Girugamesh, and Zoro's member Ryuji and Tatsuhi post comment

IT CAME~!!! [26 Dec 2009|02:21pm] mishiro_san [ music | La Paloma-Sincrea ] My beautiful cd finally came *clings to it. Sincrea you officially own me *huggles the cd to death* muhahahahahahahaha~!!!!! post comment

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