Yahari Ore no Seishun Lovekome wa Machigatteiru OP
Tracklist:
1. Yuki Toki
2. Oto no Nai Yume
3. Surrealisme
4. Yuki Toki (Instrumental)
5. Oto no Nai Yume (Instrumental)
6. Surrealisme (Instrumental)
1. Yuki Toki
Every singer has stepped out of their usual style at least once, and Nagi's time has come now. Unlike Zoetrope or Laterality, the track represents an overused, generic anisong style dominated by the piano and the guitars. Strangely, though the atmosphere of the song is happy and cute, she doesn't try make her vocals nasal even once, which I'm thankful for, because her warm colour is very hard to achieve. Summing up, this is not bad, but at the same time nothing which hasn't been heard before.
Rating: 7
2. Oto no Nai Yume
The follow up is a dreamy, slow ballad unlike the cheeriness found in Yuki Toki. Finally, the B-side isn't a filler, like in few recent reviews I've done, and the arrangement is quite interesting with the standard acoustics, piano, and an occasional flute as well. Nagi's voice is a bit too weak to hold longer but calmer tones, unlike the power she can sometimes show, but it doesn't really ruin the relaxing experience.
The follow up is a dreamy, slow ballad unlike the cheeriness found in Yuki Toki. Finally, the B-side isn't a filler, like in few recent reviews I've done, and the arrangement is quite interesting with the standard acoustics, piano, and an occasional flute as well. Nagi's voice is a bit too weak to hold longer but calmer tones, unlike the power she can sometimes show, but it doesn't really ruin the relaxing experience.
Rating: 9
3. Surrealisme
I'm not sure if I can go that far and call Surrealisme a proper song... it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff. No matter how long you listen to it, foot tapping is impossible, because the rhythm goes just from being as regular as a ticking clock to a state in which there almost isn't any. The same weirdness applies to the instruments, where the better question is what isn't used... and Nagi doesn't even sing - more like rap extremely fast or hold elongated tones in the only bit of sanity that is the chorus. My love of strange songs kicks in again, and I will probably grow to like this even more than Zoetrope, my current favourite song from her, seeing as this should of definitely been the A-side.
Rating: 10
This single is definitely quite different that what she has released before, but I wouldn't necessarily call it a bad thing - except the very A-side, which turned out to be the worst song in the single. I don't really see why it couldn't of been done better, since Nagi is no stranger to mind-blowing songs, like my new favourite, Surrealisme. My overall rating is: 9
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I'm not sure if I can go that far and call Surrealisme a proper song... it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff. No matter how long you listen to it, foot tapping is impossible, because the rhythm goes just from being as regular as a ticking clock to a state in which there almost isn't any. The same weirdness applies to the instruments, where the better question is what isn't used... and Nagi doesn't even sing - more like rap extremely fast or hold elongated tones in the only bit of sanity that is the chorus. My love of strange songs kicks in again, and I will probably grow to like this even more than Zoetrope, my current favourite song from her, seeing as this should of definitely been the A-side.
Rating: 10
This single is definitely quite different that what she has released before, but I wouldn't necessarily call it a bad thing - except the very A-side, which turned out to be the worst song in the single. I don't really see why it couldn't of been done better, since Nagi is no stranger to mind-blowing songs, like my new favourite, Surrealisme. My overall rating is: 9
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