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Generally favorable reviews- based on 62 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 49 out of 62
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Mixed: 2 out of 62
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Negative: 11 out of 62
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LukeK.Sep 30, 2008A truly amazing album, can easily be counted as the best album of the year. psychedelic yet beautiful and fun.
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WesM.Oct 3, 2008I don't even dig J-Pop (though in fairness, that's a way-too-over-general label), but I rather enjoyed it; catchy and original.
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EmilyW.Sep 30, 2008Gorgeous album. Let's find a couple more reviews and get this thing in the top thirty of the year!
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ZacaríasYMoreFeb 21, 2009Beautiful, original, he's the best singer from Japan, perfect, he's a star, the best album of the year.
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JeffLOct 27, 2008Though the musical theme is not too innovative for the majority of the album, the combination of well tread indie styles with unique percussive elements has some drawing effects. Overall, Shugo has a good ear for a catchy tune and hints at more depth of music talent, though he is not willing to let it out frequently enough. Here is to hoping he gets a bit more experimental in the future.
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MikeMDec 8, 2008Wes, just because it's Japanese doesn't make it J-Pop. this is a beautiful album through and through. so layered, yet so subtle. soft vocals and amazing instrumental depth. perhaps my favorite of 2008.
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MattA.Sep 27, 2008
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KateSFeb 22, 2009Best album of the year so far, beautiful, georgeus and original record, thanks Tokumaru-San.
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AndreaGMar 17, 2009
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AnthonyMNov 26, 2008If John Lennon were a contemporary, young, Japanese guy with a laptop and a mess of instruments I could easily see the record he might come up with sounding something like this. A variety-bag of ear candy.
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WilliamNFeb 25, 2009The best album of the year!!, He's a genious, hands down.
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Awards & Rankings
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This is music that, thanks to the global marketplace, its own ingenuity, and Youtube, moves beyond boundaries of nation and language, sound and image, rationalization and emotion.
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There are enough instrumental interludes and understated melodies here to make the record a grower, and it eases into the sunset for much of its back half.
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Tokumaru’s music, it’s now well established, is quirky but profound, foreign but still universal.