If the artist name doesn’t ring a bell, well don’t worry. This single obviously contains the insert songs in the Spring Anime, Angel Beats! that is currently airing. It surprised me on how early in the season it was released, but then again, the K-ON!! singles just released recently as well… Sorry if I’m not good at music reviewing. Probably Anime Instrumentality Blog will do it better?
General Information
Album Title: Crow Song
Artist: Girls Dead Monster (Singers: Marina and LiSA)
Catalog Number: KSLA-0051
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Tracks
- Crow Song
- Alchemy
- My Song
General Thoughts
The Album sounded fairly good, but it is not without flaws… Like with the music oriented K-ON! which had the characters playing with some rather good music, this is the same effect, but not perfect… Overall, the vocals were good for all the three song, except that the feeling in the vocals was somewhat missing or something as they sound a bit flat. I noticed this on all three tracks. If I compared this to Fuwa Fuwa Time or even Houkago Tea Time back in 2009, I think they done pretty close, except the flaws I mentioned.
Crow Song
This song is the insert song played in Episode 1. The overall song sounded really good and really like the instrumentals and had a lot of energy.
Alchemy
Alchemy is an album insert song. Although this song sounded good, but not as good as Crow Song as the energy wasn’t there that would make this song a bit forgettable. I think it would have sound better Live or something. It is sad that this one hasn’t been used in the Anime let.
My Song
This song is an insert song played in Episode 3 and it is a ballad. I haven’t watched Episode 3 yet, but it is a ballad. The song itself is powerful, and liked the acoustics. A bit better, but the vocals are still a little flat…
Overall, I think the instrumentals sounded really good because they are obviously composed by Jun Maeda which have made some really good music in past works. The only problem is with the vocals I mentioned earlier. While it is almost damn close to the K-ON! songs released last season, I think the flatness of the vocals is the problem I see here. If it wasn’t that flat, I think it would have done better…
Verdict
7.6/10, Good ¶
8.4 is still pretty good. I like the insert songs, although My Song was the only active listen during the episodes.
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I’ll probably get around to it once I watch episode 3. I will say though that I wasn’t all too impressed by Crow Song since the singers weren’t as expressive as I’d like them to be…
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That is what I noticed… Maybe I haven’t put my comments on the vocals right, but I did notice something was a bit wrong with the vocals.
Does the Album just have those 3 songs and no off/no vocals?
So is it just the insert songs with no off/no vocals included on the CD?
I rather hope all the Girls Dead monster Insert songs will be on 1 CD in the future. I think with a new Vocalist we may have a few more Songs from them to come.
Just the vocals… so therefore, no vocal versions exists. Same case with the Fuwa Fuwa Time album… oh wait. :p
No… that was Houkago Tea Time that didn’t have a no vocal version.