Devil Survivor 2 The Animation OP
Tracklist:
1. Take Your Way
2. Ready for Calming
3. Each and All
4. Take Your Way (Inst)
5. Each and All (Inst)
1. Take Your Way
A funky, retro-futuristic start makes way for an unusually happy arrangement, seeing as Devil Survivor is an anime with such a grim theme. As expected from livetune, the instrumentation is a pretty standard and overused mix of light piano, guitars and synths, alike to the Vocaloid work he does; which, disappointingly, also translates into the vocal part done by Fukase, as the melody is inconsistent and with no transitions between different tones. Just as one gets used to the track, Fukase's disheartening and weak voice colour affects it further, actually providing a relief when filtered and edited in the middle eight section. Despite being so popular, Take Your Way is nothing special, besides the very introduction to it.
Rating: 7
2. Ready for Calming
Continuing on, Ready for Calming is opened by a single piano melody, occasionally crossed with bells. The atmosphere it gives being completely different from the previous track, I'm glad livetune decided to include an instrumental-only, which fits him much better than full vocal songs. Suddenly, the summer-like ambient is broken at the half of the short interlude, rising in a trance-like climax accompanied by dubstep, while breaking down in a richer sound with the same melody and a well-hidden choir. Like a cycle, slowly everything strips down to the only piano from the beginning, albeit just playing the repeated melody again, with not much substance. Quite a lot of livetune's potential is shown here, only if he focused on being just a little more complex.
Rating: 8
3. Each and All
The third track on the single is here, and as by some rule (the rule of laziness, probably), it is the most generic and boring one. Both the arrangement and the instrumentation is actually very similar to Ready for Calming, but the addition of Rin Oikawa just needlessly prolongs the track and makes the already repetitive composition more so. Even with a few good spots, the whole thing is just a really sloppy power-ballad.
Rating: 4
With the exception of Ready for Calming, livetune's work almost always feels like a waste of time (supercell is sometimes no better at this as well). The technique of making Vocaloid songs unfortunately affects his music with real vocalists, and the level of not being able to differentiate one of the songs from another makes me question how he got so famous in the first place. Well, if I can't help with a praising review, at least I can give advice to livetune's other victims: one listen of Sis puella magica solves everything. My overall rating is: 6
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A funky, retro-futuristic start makes way for an unusually happy arrangement, seeing as Devil Survivor is an anime with such a grim theme. As expected from livetune, the instrumentation is a pretty standard and overused mix of light piano, guitars and synths, alike to the Vocaloid work he does; which, disappointingly, also translates into the vocal part done by Fukase, as the melody is inconsistent and with no transitions between different tones. Just as one gets used to the track, Fukase's disheartening and weak voice colour affects it further, actually providing a relief when filtered and edited in the middle eight section. Despite being so popular, Take Your Way is nothing special, besides the very introduction to it.
Rating: 7
2. Ready for Calming
Continuing on, Ready for Calming is opened by a single piano melody, occasionally crossed with bells. The atmosphere it gives being completely different from the previous track, I'm glad livetune decided to include an instrumental-only, which fits him much better than full vocal songs. Suddenly, the summer-like ambient is broken at the half of the short interlude, rising in a trance-like climax accompanied by dubstep, while breaking down in a richer sound with the same melody and a well-hidden choir. Like a cycle, slowly everything strips down to the only piano from the beginning, albeit just playing the repeated melody again, with not much substance. Quite a lot of livetune's potential is shown here, only if he focused on being just a little more complex.
Rating: 8
3. Each and All
The third track on the single is here, and as by some rule (the rule of laziness, probably), it is the most generic and boring one. Both the arrangement and the instrumentation is actually very similar to Ready for Calming, but the addition of Rin Oikawa just needlessly prolongs the track and makes the already repetitive composition more so. Even with a few good spots, the whole thing is just a really sloppy power-ballad.
Rating: 4
With the exception of Ready for Calming, livetune's work almost always feels like a waste of time (supercell is sometimes no better at this as well). The technique of making Vocaloid songs unfortunately affects his music with real vocalists, and the level of not being able to differentiate one of the songs from another makes me question how he got so famous in the first place. Well, if I can't help with a praising review, at least I can give advice to livetune's other victims: one listen of Sis puella magica solves everything. My overall rating is: 6
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Ouch.
ReplyDeleteI was... quite angry with livetune. (((p(>o<)q)))
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