Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Innocent Key - 東方セレブ


Reitaisai 7's release from Innocent Key, 東方セレブ (Touhou Celeb).
The preview videos for the album were great so I had been expecting this one for a while, but only crappy version was available on the web until yesterday. You can see the videos on the album's page on Innocent Key's website here.

The album in a whole is pretty average, most of the song are so~so and the engrish in some is simply awful, A handful l of song manage to save the album. Of course the two song from the videos, 東方格差社会 ~ウサビーズへようこそ!~ and 東方セレブ ~ABUNAI SISTERS~, are as good as they were on the videos, but Miko's and ARM's participation in the album is really what saves it for me. Miko's voice is as wonderful as always and still does the best Cirno around in the song 歌舞伎町の⑨イーン. While I don't know exactly where all the musics come from in ARM's mix, it's simply epic.

The surprise in this CD comes from track 9 however. the song 'Concealed.' probably has one of the best drums I've heard in any Touhou arrange album before. The guitar is pretty solid and the vocals are great. This track is probably worth a purchase by itself.

If you like IOSYS you'll probably enjoy the album, while not completely, the good tracks on it are really worth it.

8/10
also Miko's voice is awesomely awesome.

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