LogFAQs > #973198357

Picking up with UF8's first batch of songs, resuming after the AZKi track:

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nayuta - Comet Light, at Starry Avenue (composer: Qutabire)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVALhPmSFO4

Estimated Score: 57.57

It's not a song I have a lot to say about on a first listen, but I kinda enjoy it. The lyrics have a lot of references to nighttime and moonlight, which is always a plus, and she has a rather pleasingly soft voice. It doesn't have any big hooks or lines that I fall in love with, but it's an enjoyable song.

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Plague_Xeno - Fly (composer: Daidai Myao):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFIxVLoqOw

Estimated Score: 56.72

Time bleeds through the clear sky, and the scenery falls asleep

That is an interesting auto-translated line. The song itself is still in that "kinda like" tier level; I'm not the biggest fan of the singer's voice, but I find the song nice enough that I kinda enjoy listening to it and I really like the imagery from that line.

Also, this is the first song where my spotty internet froze in the middle of a track; not long, just a pause for about two minutes, but interrupted songs will happen occasionally. Still a very good sign that I got through the 15 minute long track without any hiccups.

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Emnyeca - Sandbox (composer: Daidai Myao):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwO_hqcI72A

Estimated Score: 63.44

It's definitely a very attention grabbing song. Opening with brief samples of the rest of the album-- I won't try to rank them based on such short clips, but track one seems to have some nice guitar playing & track two seems like a fun pop song, so I suspect they'd be at the top of the list (well, as the first two tracks, they are literally at the top of the list but that's not what I meant and we're getting disastrously off track)--before everything crashes and the actual song starts... it's certainly a unique intro. It's also weird enough that I'm not 100% sure that the other songs even exist, though as it would make absolutely no sense to open with an ad for a fictional album, I'll stick with the logical assumption that the album is real.

Moving on to the actual song, there's a slightly chaotic feel to it that I find rather appealing. It's not really chaotic or aggressive, but it's adjacent enough to those categories to appeal on both "chaotic" and "melodic" sensibilities at the same time? Or something like that. I like the song.

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Mikanagi Ruka Utsuru Hachinomi - FAKELORE (composer: Daidai Myao):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOq8q7rigi8

Estimated Score: 50.69

Ehh... I don't know. I'm not really a fan of anything here; even the static-y distortions feel like they're not quite right and my first reaction is that I did not like this. But... it is... somehow oddly interesting? To a point that i refuse to give it less than 50 points. It's a strange reaction. I should probably revisit this song in a week or two.

...I feel like another song had a writeup stating that I needed to revisit it in the near future, but I've forgotten which one. I should probably make actual notes about that sort of thing.

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Metamoe - Shijima Nite(At The Silence) (composer: Daidai Myao):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rk09Mi_p-M

Estimated Score: 55.00?

It's hard to say. The song opens incredibly strongly with the skipping audio and depressing vibe making it a really strong contender... then towards the middle there's an almost headache inducing "thump-thump-thump" quality to the music and the back half of the song, while it does drop the parts I actively disliked, never quite recaptures the magic of the early parts of the song. It's one of those "Part 70 Point song, Part 30 Point song, and Part Mid-50s Point song" songs where there's a massive +/- 50 point radius that I could drop the song and feel reasonably justified.

I think I'll drop it at exactly the "Kinda Like" level which is kinda in the middle of the radius. The opening feels like it's too strong for me to drop it below the 55 point zone (it'd probably be in the current top ten if it managed to keep the vibe up for the entire duration), but I do rather dislike the middle portion of the song so.... yeah, we'll say "Kinda Like" for now?

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