To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S OP
Tracklist:
1. sister's noise
2. I'm believing you
3. sister's noise (Instrumental)
4. I'm believing you (Instrumental)
1. sister's noise
Having heard this song before, it is a pretty standard one for the numerous fripSide's tie-ins in the To Aru series. The track opens with an altered intro very similar to Level 5 Judgelight, and moves in a barrage of hard-hitting synths and guitars that merge with the occasional short piano sequences. Increasingly, Yoshino's voice is becoming much better with each of their new releases, and while it's still not especially impressive, she does manage to avoid the frail and thin tones. This song follows most of the usual formulas for fripSide, and with that said, it's not very original, but the sheer dramatic effect and catchy tune manage to save it.
Rating: 8
Rating: 8
2. I'm believing you
A soft vocal solo with a significant amount of English opens the next track, accompanied by creatively used 8-bit synths, and after slowly gaining tempo, the result is a touching mid-tempo song. With the more serious overall atmosphere, the track is much more original than their seasonal ballads were when used as B-sides as well. The song retains the usual instrumentation also found in sister's noise, but with even more electric guitars added for impact. Appropriately, Yoshino's voice is sung at a lower pitch, with which she sounds quite a lot better than when incidentally screeching at too high tonalities, but the vocals tend to get lost in the varied arrangement, especially in the "middle eight" section. Even with the length of almost 6 minutes, I find this track to be a bit more enjoyable than sister's noise, and would serve as a much better ED theme in To Aru Railgun S than the current one.
Rating: 9
Currently, fripSide's composer is managing to bring up songs to the table with just enough changes to make it seem like completely new material, but the great similarities between sister's noise and only my railgun/Level 5 Judgelight (which have become almost a model to which everything else will be written) are already starting to be observable. The freshness is in compositions like I'm believing you, which I hope to hear more of in the future. My overall rating for this single is: 8 ½
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A soft vocal solo with a significant amount of English opens the next track, accompanied by creatively used 8-bit synths, and after slowly gaining tempo, the result is a touching mid-tempo song. With the more serious overall atmosphere, the track is much more original than their seasonal ballads were when used as B-sides as well. The song retains the usual instrumentation also found in sister's noise, but with even more electric guitars added for impact. Appropriately, Yoshino's voice is sung at a lower pitch, with which she sounds quite a lot better than when incidentally screeching at too high tonalities, but the vocals tend to get lost in the varied arrangement, especially in the "middle eight" section. Even with the length of almost 6 minutes, I find this track to be a bit more enjoyable than sister's noise, and would serve as a much better ED theme in To Aru Railgun S than the current one.
Rating: 9
Currently, fripSide's composer is managing to bring up songs to the table with just enough changes to make it seem like completely new material, but the great similarities between sister's noise and only my railgun/Level 5 Judgelight (which have become almost a model to which everything else will be written) are already starting to be observable. The freshness is in compositions like I'm believing you, which I hope to hear more of in the future. My overall rating for this single is: 8 ½
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