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[amemenojaku]

OUGH.

[freshlybakedspiderbread]

I really like hifuu doujin music, rd-sounds edition

following up on these two posts, I feel compelled to talk about a bunch of hifuu arranges (again specifying renmerry! sorry Sumireko!), specifically those arranged by RD-Sounds of circle 凋叶棕 (diao ye zong).

just gonna put this here in case I forget, you can stream 凋叶棕’s ‘main’ albums on spotify here!

Thing is though, they’ve arranged a Lot of hifuu-themed tracks, not just in dyz albums, but in all sorts of collab works with other circles too! I’m sure there’s lots of tracks, both hifuu and in general, that I’ve never heard of! And even among all the ones I have heard, I don’t really have the same amount of strong feelings for all of them. So for this post, I’ll only be going over the songs that really left a strong impact on me, and ones I would describe as being formulative for my hifuu experience! So there’s going to be a bunch I leave out, like say for example... true outsiders from 喩 (tatoe). It’s a song I like a lot, and its hifuu! But it doesn’t take up housing in my brain like the ones I really want to mention. But that’s fine! There’s still going to be plenty I gush about anyhow.

And like, might as well start with the original, classic, dyz hifuu album. 廻  (meguri/)... Just the album cover is making me nostalgic and emotional, because it instantly makes me hear the first track.

That first track is A Secret Adventure , and i know I say this a lot, but its definitely a classic! Firstly, remembering that this album is like, twelve years old is making me want to turn to dust 😩 , not that I first heard it literally that long ago, but oh my god to think dyz is still going strong to this day. As for the song itself, it has all those classic hifuu beats, being an energetic duet of vocaists singing about seeking out the mysteries of the world and anything is possible as long as the two of them are together! There’s probably a hundred of this exact kind of song out there about merry and renko, and I hope there will be another thousand more!!!

But I think such a ‘straightforward’ song is really there just to establish the premise of the album. As you go on and listen to a bunch more songs about various other touhous that fit the theme of the album. And near the end, you get to what I’m certain is an absolutely iconic piece for hifuu culture (that makes it sound like a cult...).

絶対的一方通行 (Absolute One-Way Street) . While I’m sure Merry=Yukari stories/theories/ideas had been floating around plenty beofre this album, my gut tells me that it is this song in particular that was the origin point of a lot of people really seeing the appeal and made to cry about a doomed renmerry for the rest of their life. It’s a great song with the lyrics about ‘someone’ accounting their terrible fate having fallen into the darkness and warning against ‘someone’ not to follow after...

I like it alright. 🙂 And the merry = yukari beat is something I think is neat, but not something I’m like, super invested in when I think about either characters. (Also I like the remake from a future album, 絶対的一方通行 ～ Unreachable Message more than the original!) Truthfully, I consider this more of a Yukari song than I do a hifuu or even a Merry song, and the real reason why I bring up this song is because it is necessary context for the experience of the album! You get to this song and its pretty dread and despair and tragedy all around, and that feeling carries over with you into the final song of the album, and definitely a song that makes me cry about renmerry forever.

ヒメゴトクラブ  (Himegoto Club) .....oh my goooood, this song. There’s no other touhou arrange I can think of that can be so purely described as a love song.

All the despair and uncertainy of the world around them, of the fears that everything won’t last, the mysteries surrounding them, the stars and the boundaries that they see with their strange eyes. This song is about how none of that matters right now. The only thing that matters and the only thing they think about is that they’re together, each other’s warmth. 😭 The associated booklet image has Merry and Renko in a dark room, sharing an intimate moment, tossing aside all other things in the universe (and their hats, same thing). It’s really really really really good and the perfect closing note for the album. it doesn’t get better (ie gayer) than this...

(actually just wanted to say that my favourite song from this album is カレイドスコープ (Kaleidoscope), but that’s a reimu song and this post is about hifuu!)

That’s it for Meguri, so going to just segue into a different dyz album, this one just because of one specific song in it.

hey did you know that 騙 (katari) on rd-sounds website has two pages for it? One true and one ‘fake’ which is filled with false song titles? I love gimmicks.. Anyhow, the theme of the album is deception and its got a lot of really cool tracks, but I was really surprised that one of the songs is explicitly a sequel to Himegoto Club, its booklet image borrowing from the one from meguri, and the song itself opening with the exact same notes!!

rebellion -たいせつなもののために-  I really love this one... Also i think it might be the only song I’m gonna mention on this post that doesn’t have Merami for vocals?! 3L is here singing this super cool and dramatic song about Renko in despair over having forgotten something, someone important, and forcing herself to remember before dedicating herself to finding that someone again... The whole song is super cool but its of course that final line that’s shouting after Merry’s name that never fails to destroy me 🤩🤯😭 It’s also easily my fav song of the whole album. Now to move on to something that’s arguably most special to me...

辿／誘 (Tadori/Izanai) This... is actually the first dyz album I ever listened to. I believe its with this album i first discovered the circle, or at least its definitely the earliest I remember where I really took note of the credits. With that said, I’ve actually revisited the music on this album very rarely compared to other dyz tracks, part of that is because most of the tracks in this album(s?) are don’t exactly make for easy listening the way a fun pop track would, one part is that listening to it alongside looking at the booklet images and the lyrics feels especially important for the experience, because i think no other dyz track goes as all in with rd-sounds ‘double-meaning’ tricks as the two main songs of this album. And another part is that... well, its special to me, and I guess I feel like like I can’t just pop it in for any old occasion...

The beautiful world is the reason this album is in this post though. The basic gist of this song is that its about Merry becoming Yukari, but its even more dramatic and heavy than Absolute One-Way Street. The lyrics go on about how becoming something else and leaving everything behind is terrifying and scary, but by the end, those things are happily(?) given up in order to embrace the new world they’re a part of... I said i’m not super invested in this story beat, but this song along makes me glad it exists... When this song puts you into an existential high, you gotta wind down with its associated instrumental track, 何もかもが、幻想 ...

(While I’m here, my actual fav song from this album is the other ‘main’ one, Calling. I’d dare say its in fact my favourite rd-sounds song ever,  but its not really related to hifuu so i’m just mentioning it here for fun n_n)

...So that’s actually mostly it for the dyz albums, and now i’m just gonna hard divert into a bunch of other things. rd-sounds has done collabs with many circles and to provide music for specific projects. This is where this post is going to sound even more aimless and rambly before, because um... most of the works i’m about to talk about are things I’ve not ever actually properly experienced obviously due to lack of either availability and/or any translation or even basic summaries/resources I could find. I really can only guess and estimate the context to all of these and their associated songs, haha.... n_n;;; u_u I do still want to talk about these next few ones because against all odds, they do all stick in my mind to this day and were very formative in a sense for me! Will I ever actually properly consume any of these one day? ...Probably not, but that’s the beauty of art, right? To be able to get something out of something even while barely understanding it?!! That’s what i’ll choose to believe..

First on the agenda is 現夢 -genmu- by TUMENECO! First of, its over a decade old 👵. Secondly, its an album that goes hand in hand with an illustrated novel written by 四面楚歌 (Surrounded By Enemies) ((oh fair warning, i like a bunch of their work, but warning if you’re even just heading to their website. some of the stuff and its covers thats just out there in the open is NSFW)).

I’ve actually read a translated version of that novel, so for once I actualy get the context of it! The songs are all based on events or themes from the novel, and are separated into two discs, one for vocal songs and the other for instrumentals. Of course the first song in the album is led by TUMENECO themselves and with a true yukina and Mie classic. But wouldn’t you know it, the very last song on both discs to close off the album as a whole go to RD-Sounds and Meramipop, woohoo!

うつつのゆめ (Dream of Reality) It’s basically the ending song of the album and the novel! And arranges of Innocent Treasures just feel inherently special to me. After everything else in the story and album is said and done, it all ends with a wistful, yet upbeat song about celebrating your dreams while they last. The story itself ended on a bittersweet note of having to ‘wake up’ from the dream that is Gensokyo, but then further ending with the hope that dreams never have to ‘truly’ end, and this song captures that really well... And i’m like a giant sucker for the very final lyric, which is the very last line of dialogue you see in the story as well n_n!!!

That’s the one among these I have the most context for, and now for the one I easily have the least.

喜劇機械、もしくはジェーン・ドゥ達によるパラード , or Comedy Mechanism: Parade of Jane Does, is a novel written by ゐた・せくすありす (Vita Sexualic). There are seveal novels written by them, many hifuu-themed ones too. The general opinions of them I’ve seen is that most of them delve into very dark and grim themes and imagery even if they’re not listed as Adult (and the ones that do have that listing are like wow not enough content warnings in the world) and that’s on top of also being quite a bit abstract and surreal in its presentation.

Honestly if I was going to talk about any of Vita Sexualic’s works, it really ought to have been ジムノペディが終わらない / The Gymnopédies Never End, because that one actually has a readily available english translation on the web, and its associated song is actually on a regular dyz album!

But no, instead I’m bringing up Jane Does, which is apparently way longer and somehow even more esoteric than that. I actually bought the digital version of this novel on the artists BOOTH page quite a long time ago too because I was so intrigued by it!

I don’t know what this story is about. Like, at all. If its anything like the author’s few works I’ve dabbled with, its probably a bit hard to grasp even in the original language, and contains too many instances of gruesomeness. ...But, no matter how much I disagree with those aspects, there’s still always been value somewhere that I took away from it.

Not that I know what that value in Parade of Jane Does would be, exactly, because even now, I’ve gained almost zero solid knowledge about this story! I could guess what its about, but I don’t want to because I’d be embarrassed at the real possibility of being 100% off the mark. So like, why am I even bringing this up at all?!

well, scanning through the novel, there is a section where the words take a pause and you’re assaulted with a whole bunch of surreal images, which I intepret as the reality around the characters falling apart. One of those images is a QR code that leads to a song, the whole reason I brought this story up in the first place!

セルフ・トーキング 或いは 魔女というガラクタによる魂の在り処への言及のバラード  (Self Talking: Or a Ballad Alluding to the Whereabouts of the Souls Of Garbage Otherwise Known as Witches)

I actually think the coolest way to experience the song if you’re not going to ever experience the novel (and you’re probably not...) is through this video on youtube, which is a really well editted thing that adds subtitles and also splices in illustrations from the novel itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vSgnYR57BM

I’m like, not gonna even try to talk about what I think the song is about or how it relates to the story, even if I have plenty of thoughts in that department. But the biggest reason as to why I mention it on this post onw is because discovering this song and the associated story and even just glimpsing it in this way, from a distance where I barely understood it and yet found myself moved and even frightened by how it sounds and how it presents itself... Well, it played a big part in making me realise just how much I value creativity in presentation, and just how cool and how much fun it is to really play around with ways that you can make a person listen to a song or read a story. It’s sort of a similar reason why I like the dyz albums that really play around with ARG-type gimmicks.

From now until forever, I’ll always think about how the song ends, with the same line from Merami just going on and on, looping and repeating and layering over itself with no end as everything fades to quiet. Even just that little touch left a big impact on a younger (and current) me...

Anyway time to move on to something more fun! A video game! Except its got a lot of death in it. Whoops.

秘封祭 (Hifusai), or Hifuu Festival -Merry Bad End-, is a visual novel by 四面楚歌 / Surrounded By Enemies.

The hook of this game is that Renko and Merry are going about their day like any other, and depending on the choices you make, they may meet different kinds of outcomes. There are 60 stated different endings, a couple of which end really badly for one or both of them. As you progress, the whole premise of the game takes on a meta feel, as questions rise about how ‘real’ each of those bad ends were, whether the next Renko and Merry deserve to find a happy ending after all the ‘others’ died, etc etc.

Or at least that’s what I assume is the gist of it since I kinda skimmed through a playthrough on youtube n_n;;; I doubt I’ll ever be able to fully experience or even understand all the themes and nuances myself, but I’m very intrigued by the premise, format and presentation as usual. As for how it relates to RD-Sounds, they arranged for the OP and ED of the game, with vocals by Meramipop as expected! And it’s specifically the ED, the credits song, that I wanted to talk about.

イニシエイション  (Initiation) I might not have actually played through the whole game first-hand, but I still felt something special as this song played to mark the end of the very long journey full of winding paths... It’s a song that’s both dark yet triumphant, as the lyrics talk about overcoming all the other versions of themselves that met a bad end, and how they’ll resolve to crush them all, stamping over them in order to get to that good ending with the person they love... It’s pretty perfect for the vn and also for a cool, dark yet still managing to be hopeful renmerry n_n

And we’re not even done with Surrounded By Enemies yet!

祝現 (Celebration) is a CD consisting of two songs arranged by RD-Sounds. It was released alongside a big collab project called HIHUU WEDDING -Welcome to Ghostly Chapel- , featuring a wide range of art and photos themed after Merry and Renko having a wedding getting married. Yeah!! That’s what I’m all for!!! Please do more of this thing instead of uncomfortable stories about Sumireko But i’m here to talk about the songs.

ずっと近くの明日  (Tomorrow, Forever Close) Its Renko and Merry’s wedding wovs, the song! Yeah!! Lyrics about exchanging promises to be together forever, about how it all feels like a wonderful dream, and how they’ll walk hand-in-hand towards the future no matter what it holds for them! It’s a perfect theme song for the entire HIHUU WEDDING project as a whole. I love it a lot for how completely fluffy and happy it is.

But I also love it because its necessary to come before the second song on the disc, which wouldn’t be as good on its own without this song to provide context and then contast.

すぐ傍にある未来 (The Future So Near To Us) .....

....This is the only song that could challenge GITR’s Forgotten Paradise for title of my favourite hifuu arrange ever. In concept, it’s pretty similar to Himegoto Club, how absolutely nothing else in the world matters except for the bond Merry and Renko share in the present.

But compared to Himegoto Club which was all about love in the face of uncertainty, I feel like すぐ傍にある未来 is about love in the face of inevitability. The world, dreams, and anything else they may have loved or had hopes for is inevitably going to disappear if it hasn’t already, and even the idea that their current happiness can last forever is just a dream that won’t come true.

And yet they are exchanging vows and promises to stay together forever anyway, and are happy to do so... Aaaaaargh!!!! 😭🤪🤯🙃😻

(^ getting a lot of mileage out of this one lately)

I think that about covers all the rd-sounds hifuu songs that have and continue to really and truly drive me insane for one reason or another...

Now I know there’s dyz’s C99 album △ (Tetra) with is awesome and great and I love it and also talked about briefly here in this post, but I think I decided halfway through making this post here that I only wanted to cover older songs that were ‘formative’ in a sense to my hifuu-listening experience over the years, so Tetra’s too recent to qualify. Though, obviously, I super recommend it and I feel like it’s inevitable that I’ll gush more about it and who knows what else in the future too n_n

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Just Discovered on Spotify "Cigarette Daydreams" by Cage The Elephant https://ift.tt/1Iu323m

[amemenojaku]

the fucked up cat hifuu doujinshi seen in the wild (secondhand store) for a ridiculous price

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quick write-up on Q by Diao Ye Zong after a full listen of the album + the bonus content

(spoilers: it's really good. buy it)

I've skipped some of DYZ's releases in the last few years like Shirushi/Mukui/Atsume out of lack of interest, so it's very possible that I missed a hidden gem, but anyway I think Q is their best recent work. It's as good as Hohuri or △ imo (and Hohuri is like. my favorite DYZ and favorite doujin music album overall so.)

Agatha ChrisQ suddenly and completely disappears, shrouded in as much mystery as when she started releasing novels. The narrator sets out in search of the truth through 6 of ChrisQ's unpublished murder mysteries, each a reflection of their writer's feelings.

Q is a seed // Q is an outcome - Waiting to germinate into fantasy // Imposing the results of your ego on all.

It is, of course, a must-listen (or must-experience, rather, since it's not limited to music) for any Akyuu fan, but I'd also recommend it to fans of DiPP, Umineko specifically but mystery novels in general, and interactive fiction (there's branching endings). Oh and yuri. Akyuu/Kosuzu has been a fairly recurring pair in DYZ works (I can think of at least 5 songs off the top of my head, that's recurring to me lol) and this is no exception.

The album is gorgeous, jewel case and booklet and everything, all B&W with beautiful arabesques and elegant lettering and the occasional lines written in red. Hanadahyou's art is even more gorgeous than usual in the lyrics booklet (and if you've ever looked at a DYZ album you know the booklet is part of the experience)!! I love the small detail of the page with Akyuu's portrait, not the one with ChrisQ's, touching the page with the picture of Kosuzu and Akyuu as children...

The tracks are very good, pleasant to listen to from beginning to end (in my case there's just one I have a problem with because of the singer's voice... T_T lol). If I had to pick just one it'd be the Kosuzu song, Imaginary Friend (spoilers in the translator's notes), obviously everything in it makes me want to cry and scream and bash my head into a wall but ESPECIALLY the line where 'it was love at first sight' and 'I set upon you all my fantasies' are both said at the same time in the most beautiful wordplay I've seen in a while.. I also really like the Hieda servants' song (Murasaki Hotaru's voice <3) and the Reimu song is super fun (there is no way Reimu holding a knife next to Marisa's body in the booklet art isn't a nod to the reimari songs from Hohuri - and with the Birlstone Gambit theory referenced in the song itself, well...). But even then all the other tracks are interesting too. Very solid album.

And then there's the secret bonus content. I will only say that I love both choices very much but Imaginary Friend -> My Beloved Q did permanent damage to my heart <3 <3 <3 (suffering

ANYWAY, if any of this sounded intriguing to you then Q is absolutely worth the money! So go support the artists!! The regular version without the secret content will probably end up for free on spotify at some point (edit: it is now, including the last two secret tracks), but in my humble opinion it's one of those DYZ albums that are 1000% better if experienced with a real hardcopy of the CD because of how high-quality the product is, the gorgeous art, the bonus content etc... Personally I am never getting rid of my copy it's just SO beautiful.

[amemenojaku]

can we get the diao ye zong top ten songs ? (or album tier list)

we sure can!!! I'll put this under a readmore though because it's very long

1) 墓標 (bohyou): I'll be honest here I think this song and the hohuri album are one of the main reasons behind the DiPP Renaissance in 2015-2020 (significant increase of DiPP fanworks/fans being able to recognize jacketko & labelko). a big circle making DiPP songs led to more fans reading the original story and then making fancontent of it which in turn got more people into it etc. so to my dear followers if you're reading this and you're not a dyz fan but you gave DiPP a try thanks to people creating more content of it after 2015 mayyybe you should also listen to 屠 (hohuri) by diao ye zong...... anyway the song itself is really good. the intro is chilling - just imagine getting that CD back in the summer of 2014, putting it in your music player/pc expecting the first track to be an arrange of A Sacred Lot like written on the tracklist and instead you get THIS! (I did with my friends and it was scary.) the instrumental is amazing, I love that it's mostly original with bits of arranges from DiPP here and there, and Merami's performance is leagues above everything else she'd ever sung for the circle until then imo (and it kept getting better after that). and just, that last part...

2) 悠久の子守唄 (yuukyuu no komoriuta): dyz song I have the strongest emotional attachment to.... it's a bit old now (you can even hear the difference in quality of Merami's mic lol) but it still makes me feel so many things... when I say I'm really invested in hakurei shrine maidens fanworks this is what always comes to mind first

3) Dolls into pitiful pretenders: DiPP meta song where jacketko mocks both the other honest men AND the DiPP fan community at large (if you want to interpret it that way). Merami's best performance to date imo, even now, especially during the reverie part

4) n_tegralより愛をこめて (integral yori (a)i wo komete): it's difficult to choose one dyz hifuu(renmerry) song above all the others, there's just too many good ones..... but if I have to then it HAS to be the followup song to the fucked up hifuu cat music (iykyk). has shaped my interpretation of merry's character like literally nothing else ever will. also it's just beautiful. 'together we will become a world' etc etc...

5) まぼろしの友達 (maboroshi no tomodachi): like with the hifuu above it's tough to choose one akyuusuzu/FS song out of the (still)growing selection of really good remixes we got over the years... but this one is so emotional and soft and the different layers of interpretation are the cherry on top of the cake for me. there isn't a single line in the lyrics that doesn't hurt me lol

6) 幻想萬歳楽 (gensou manzairaku): very very different from everything else in this list but I love noh and this one based on the okina opening performance is just genius. the instrumental is beautiful. I had a paper to write on noh a few years ago and just listened to it on loop

7) 異聞『正義の味方』 (ibun "seigi no mikata"): I was hoping for a vocal remix of little princess from dyz so the first version of seigi no mikata (kishin/輝針 「セイギノミカタ」 from sasage) already had me really glad, but then a few years later they made a new one that's much, much darker and I love it even more. it reminds me of the like 2-3 really dark shinmyoumaru songs some circles released the year following DDC... very powerful and desperate. I love that it can be interpreted in two opposite ways - shinmyoumaru's anger at the betrayal, or this (fucked up and funnier)

8) 夏の終わり／世界の終わり (natsu no owari/sekai no owari): RENMERRY KABOOM <3 when the fear of being left behind in a boring unchanging world pushes you over the edge. 'if you plan to cross over that boundary, I'll find every door possible, close them shut and break the keys!' chilling despite the catchy instrumental. similar to maboroshi no tomodachi in the 'it's ok if you end up hating me for what I'm about to do. I love you and that's what matters most to me right now' it's just... ough.... uaghh...... hurts :)

9) ハロー、マイフレンド (hello, my friend): alternate universe where marisa lives an ordinary, unfulfilling student life in the outside world and sometimes dreams about a shrine maiden flying in the sky. MUST be listened to with the instrumental remix of Casket of Star that comes right before it in the album, it's beautiful and has that little phone alarm at the end of it - pulling marisa out of her dream. I think this song would resonate with a lot of people for whom fiction is one of the only respites from real life. it sure did with me!!!

10) Salvator noster: this is a crazy mix of so many things - keiki's theme and pokemon SV area zero music and gregorian chants and buddhist (?!) imagery and that dyz-typical everpresent undertone of something going really, really wrong. definitely my favorite arrange of Idolatrize World ever and up there in the list of Merami's best performances (she never stumbles once in the fast parts and it's amazing)

for my top 10 albums:

屠 (hohuri) (cannot be dethroned): flawless from beginning to end despite turning 10 years old this year. god I feel ancient

Q: would be number 1 if hohuri didn't exist. I already wrote a short review of it here but anyway it's the dyz album I'd recommend the most to anyone who's looking for a whole experience

喩 (tatoe): full of what-ifs and interesting AU concepts. really, really solid and relatively easy to get into for newcomers as long as they're fine with some darker topics from time to time (if not then number 7 on my list is a better pick)

慄 (furue) (not on spotify yet): hifuu-only with the added flavor of being based on Lafcadio Hearn's works. so like, perfect lol. narrated/drama tracks between every song and I really recommend those in particular, they're amazing, especially the one where merry goes a bit crazy insane. my fav is the arrange of Infinite Nightmare but it's worth checking out for 無間夢幻無想夢想幻葬 and its longass title alone

△ (tetra): the ultimate hifuu dyz album!!! hifuu club hallelujah etc etc. I know the go-to dyz hifuu song is absolute one-way street but I hope this album as a whole will reach same levels of popularity one day... every song has its own identity and explores different sides of science fiction as a genre. also a good variety of vocalists in this one if you get tired of Merami

伝 (tsutae): built around the concept of a day of noh, with its opening performances, plays in all the different categories and kyogen inbetween. they're not actual plays ofc but the premise really works. I always wonder how different it would've been if this one had been made after HSiFS released

奉 (sasage): most newcomer-friendly dyz album imo. simple concept: one song to represent each main game from EoSD to DDC. the atmosphere of each game is transcribed perfectly into each song. nothing ever gets particularly dark. in the same spirit 掲 (kakage) (its twin sister album to me), themed around spell cards, is pretty good for dyz beginners too and since it gets a bit heavier at times I think it works well as a transition to some other better but more fucked up albums

騙 (katari): the album that got me into dyz :') when it came out I'd been into touhou for a little while and had already listened to a few dyz songs, but this is the one that really caught my eye. it's messed up and hopeful and bittersweet... 真実の詩 and rebellion -たいせつなもののために- (the followup to absolute one-way street) make me feel especially nostalgic

彁 ( ): I love that the album themed around 'fantasy' as a concept uses a kanji that doesn't exist as its title. overall solid album (I just don't like the clownpiece song but only because I'm not a fan of that vocalist). the reimu song at the end is perfect. maybe THE reimu song to me (even if Hearken unto, from the latest album, is a strong contender now)

密 (hisoka): secrets!!! the first two tracks are a punch to the guts, the reimari song is the softest thing ever, the 3-part keine song is an amazing experience and Kirisame Eversion is like... it sure is something lol (saying this positively. I adore it). really good hidden secret song too

other contenders which I like very very much in chronological order: 遙 (haruka), 辿／誘 (tadori/izanai), 薦 (susume), 音 (omoi), 逆 (sakasa), 軛 (kubiki)

if you've read all of this: thank you :] sorry for being insane

[amemenojaku]

TABOO JAPAN DISENTANGLEMENT DYZ ALBUM IN LESS THAN 10 DAYS

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happy new year! (late.)

listening to the latest DYZ releases the way they were always meant to be listened to:

on a cheap secondhand cd player from the early 2000s