samedi 29 Aoû 2009, 16h04m

After about three days of solid work, I finally forced myself to genuinely enjoy MEG's 2009 album BEAUTIFUL. I've done this before, but this was especially difficult due to the sheer repulsiveness the album was when I first heard it.

Nakata Yasutaka produced albums are usually a hit or miss. whilst I like most of his work for Pefume , I don't understand why half his capsule stuff is just pure rubbish (whereas the other half are his best). The problem with BEAUTIFUL was I was expecting a fuller sounding, cute vocals (ie her FREAK/Journey vocals) poppier sound with heaps of bass. Instead it ended up being rehashed of the more annoying capsule songs, awkward compositions with awkward english all sung with odd sounding vocals.

…but after awhile it becomes very endearing. Good job MEG, you're last three releases have all been very enjoyable and very different. Proof you don't need to rely on certain producers to have good music (or that all three of those producers were top grade (or that you attract you producers (or that you have good taste in producers))) :)

Kudos nakata (capsule), shanghai restoration project, hadouken!