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Mirror's Edge

Surprisingly enough, despite the sheer number of shoegaze and dream-pop bands coming out of Japan these past few years (not that it's a bad thing, most of these bands make pretty sick stuff), this album by MoritaSaki in DA pool somehow piqued my interest more than a lot of its contemporaries, especially starting from the second track there, "Mirror's Edge". By far my personal favorite on the album, what a lovely way to jump in DA pool for the first time. Washes of choruse-d overdubbe-d overdriven-d guitars and a very simple, yet very catchy chord progression. Love that little bend thingy at the end of each phrase, just lovely. The album keeps on giving with IKAROS, which instantly gets more propulsive, while staying very consistent sonically with the prior song(s). One thing that makes MoritaSaki in DA pool so appealing are the vocals. Both singers are (I think) always harmonizing together, it just sounds great, man. Ok, but it does unfortunately dip, not so much in quality, but mostly interestingness (?) in the second half of the album. The last 3 songs are pretty forgettable, and while it still sounds pretty, it very quickly fades into the background. I will definitely follow this band closely, the highs on that album are like, VERY high, and the lows aren't really that low at all. Can't wait to jump in DA pool again, hell yeah.