Album Keyakizaka46 Best [Eien Yori Nagai Isshun~Anogoro Tashika ni Sonzai Shita Watashitachi] (2020/10/07)

It would have been a unit song, hard to judge it like anything else. We got better.
A good soundtrack for some shoujo anime, a nice but plain song.
We still have 1 or 2 songs to discover, right?

 

It is a unit song. Uemura Aoi Inoue Takeyui Hikaru and Karin

Deadline is to be released next week, and who knows where will they drop Concentration?

 

Love to see kaleidoscope to be our Sakurazaka46 base image
As well imagine this song to be sung with stand mic ♥♥♥♥

 

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New fav. Deadline is releasing in about an hour, so let's see if it can top this one!

 

LORD deadline is so good I didnt expect that. I really thought it was gonna be a generic mary songs but I was wrong. Totally my favorite out of all of the new songs

 

OMG... Deadline! I was caught by surprise, a pleasant one indeed. This is a beautiful song. So good!! I need it already!

 

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Deadline is so good! It sounds like it belongs in a Hollywood coming of age film.

 

Translated the lyric!

 

Concentration is my favorite! I LOVE this song!
Deadline is the next song I want to play on my guitar! That raw guitar sound is just great!
Both of them are great songs. But, maybe it is just me, I didn't hear/feel the dark and depressed tone structure in both song. These two songs feel brighter, but it retains the cool vibe of Keya.

 

Thank you so much guys! Such encouraging words

 

Concentration sounds interesting enough, but I wonder who they'll put in Nijika and Naako's place on the concert.
Deadline sounds like a song that wishes to be different but doesn't quite get there. The cadence and high notes don't let it fulfill the expectations.

Overall, except for Dare Kane, a weak group of new songs that will make the album a little less musically interesting.
And this close Keyaki music experience with a puf instead of a bang. Hopefully, Sakura begin will raise the quality once again.

 

Loving all songs so far!!! Concentration is so cute and brings happy vibes.

 

Why all new songs are so good?

about vocal! Tecchi was the main vocalist, of course no more old sounds anymore.

 

Deadline, Concentration and Sajin are my picks of all new songs excluded Dare kane. It's a nice send off.

The best thing about rebrand they have to start over and create a new sound that doesn't exist on the market right now. It's always exciting when a group start fresh and you don't know what they will turn out.

 

Still liking Dare Kane the most out of this batch of newer songs, although the comparison may have been a bit unfair, given that I first heard/saw Dare Kane from a live performance (the dance added a lot to the song) but the other songs from radio rips.
None of the other songs have been love at first listen to me, but I'm warming up to 10gatsu a lot. I like the texture of its instrumentation. Now with the live performance added, I can begin to envision it as a potential Keyaki single along the style of Sekai ni wa Ai shika nai (which I personally like a lot).
Concentration and Sajin also stand out a little, the former for having an interesting melody, the latter for having a slightly lower pitch that distinguishes it from the other songs (apart from Dare Kane).
Kaleidoscope and Deadline sound rather generic to me. Let's see if my opinion will change with time — or with a live performance, if we can get one later.


Btw, not because it matters at all but just because I can, I'm trying to put together the remnants of planning for the supposed 9th single:

1. All Type — Title Track: 10gatsu no Pool ni Tobikonda
2. All Type: Dare ga Sono Kane wo Narasu no ka? (It'd probably be the All Type B-side because it's the documentary's theme song?)
3. Type A/B/C/D: Sajin / Kaleidoscope / Deadline / Concentration (interchangeable)
4. Regular Type: Kado wo Magaru (a graduation solo for 3 singles straight lol)

Probably?? It's actually a feasible tracklist. Again it matters not in the grand scheme of things, but I personally find it interesting (just like with IZ*ONE, another group that's going to release an album a long time after the disruption of its [Japanese] single release schedule, one can still clearly see the planning for the supposed single in its album tracks).

 

Personally if that was the 9th single's tracklist I would have found it to be stronger than both Kuroi Hitsuji and Ambivalent. Kuroi Hitsuji is an amazing song but I'm not a fan of the B-sides. Same with Ambivalent. 10 gatsu seems more cohesive.

 

Still have a somewhat mixed feeling about the new songs. In addition to Darekane, I genuinely enjoy 10Gatsu and Concentration. Saijin still feels kinda half-baked. While a guitar is always a welcome addition, the hook and the chorus are not as strong as I would have liked. As for Kaleidoscope and Deadline, I don't know. The melody and vocals feel kinda flat, with no real progression.
However this is not my final opinion. The more you listen to a certain song, the more you like it, right? Believe it or not, on my first couple of listening attempts I hated the way AM 1:27 or I'm out sound. Now, both of these are in my top-15.

 

I actually think Ambivalent has a rather strong set of B-sides myself lol. Never tired of Student Dance and Hi ga Noboru made. I'm Out is nice too, especially with the dance.
Kuroi Hitsuji's B-sides though, I'm not too impressed by them either, so I'd been really hungry for new Keyaki songs before finally getting Dare Kane.

I'd say Keyaki's strongest emsemble of songs remains to be the original songs from their 1st album, but the current album is released under such different circumstances that it feels even less meaningful to compare it with the 1st album lol. I'm contended that we're at least getting a single's worth of reasonable quality songs.

 

The special site for the album is up now. The members made their own setlist and you can vote for your fav keyaki song too
https://www.keyakizaka46.com/s/k46o/page/bestalbum