Review Type: Album
Reviewer: Rave-Andou
Reviewed: Gackt - Mars
Star Count: ¶¶¶¶¶
Review:
"Mars-
Gackt
In General its a pretty good album with tracks that show of his voice and vocal
range very well and his music writing skills
Ares - Simple voice opening to start the showing of his voice a good intro 8/10
Asrun Dream - lead into perfectly by Ares, starts with synth gackt but soon goes
into his normal voice strongly, the song is demanding on his voice with high
notes having to be held in time with the music, it has a good piano piece lead
into a guitar solo, there is a bit built up well lead to him singing very
strongly, the ending is him singing high but very good not to overpowerful. A
good vibe song with lots of flare and good to dance to 8/10
~for my dear~ A good instumental opening with a solid bass background his voice
gives the melody, and a good use of guitar, the chorus is very strong and i
enjoy it alot the guitar is brought in strongly for it.. good guitar solo
follows leads to gackts voice over some synth to show it well..when u think it
has stopped it starts again but like the first verse, leads into a even stronger
chorus. the end is a bit boring though 9/10
U+K - The opening shows its going to be a very upbeat song, ok for showing his
range, very good chorus one of my favourite on the album,very interesting
backing track to it, not sure on the 'na na' and gackt malice laugh scares
me...but followed by a good guitar solo, the rest of the song is similar in a
slightly different range, the ending is funny (in my opinion 9/10
Vanilla - Ah the popular song^^ you can see why, he sings the song quite low and
quite fast but this has a very good backing to keep it lively, he reaches quite
high notes in the chorus, i think this is the best song for showing his actual
range. The first time i heard it i was dancing everywhere..and i still do...it
doesnt bored me. And it has a good guitar solo (it has a funny dance in the live
version) It is a very good to sing to if you know the lyrics to... i dont enjoy
when he decides to sing the chorus slighlt higher cause it makes the high bit
even higher for him. I can see why it is very popular 10/10
freesia~op. 1~ Very quite and slower than the other ones, but its much prettier
and uses the instuments much better, i like it when it get some more emotion i
really makes me have a fuzzy feeling cause its almost like i know the emotion,
he releases it really well. and it closes into a nice short instrumental ending
and its a very short song... i wish it was longer 10/10
fressia~op. 2~ A totally instrumental piece to show his skill in writing it has
a good use of violins and piano mix to it it goes perfectly with the song
before, but not with the upbeat vibe of the earlier tracks. It may be short but
its simple to op. 1 9/10
Illness Illusion - Gackts voice is quite wierd at the beginning and it scares me
a bit, but he starts to lose the dodgy accent and starts to sing properly when
he does its amazing, very strong. This song has a slightly olden french feel to
it (as my dad says) towards the centre its very amazing, The problem is its a
bit repetitive. the gradual slow at the end is good thou 7/10
Mirror - Back to the upbeat, but with alot more use of instrument than the
others, his voice compliments this song very well, the use of guitar and violin
together is very good. The problem with the song is that because you get used to
the short one it seems too long. The quite bit in the middle is a simple show of
the violin. The song is rather boring and repetitive to the end, i really didnt
want to finish listening to it, but i did for review perposes. But it does have
a good show of violin solo at the end. 5/10
dears - this is the name of his official site and starts of quite well with
instruments adding gradually to his voice, which then just goes over a simple
guitar backing which makes it very pretty. It a pretty slow song to start with
but soon gets very upbeat, with instuments added, but enjoyable and i did dance
to it during my reviewing^^ It stays fairly simple after that bit, but soon goes
upbeat again, its a good blend of upbeat and slightly downbeat music, it has
some very good violining again, which makes me think of the summer which is good
for the bloody cold weather we have it is slightly shorter than mirror but
doesnt drag out like mirror does 10/10
OASIS - Very good start with interesting synth its in between up and down beat
which is good, it has a very strong oriental theme i think and he uses his voice
in a wide range to complient this, i really enjoy when he goes into the chorus
because he holds a long note before it then goes into it perfectly. This is
another good song for his range, hitting high and low notes. It has a very good
Strong guitar solo, followed by his high voice perfectly...and into the chorus
after a short pause, it almost perfect^^, after 3:30 i did want it to end soon
but still had another minute to wait, but he didnt sing and it was just the
backing, and i enjoyed that 9/10
Konodaremoinaiheyade - Nice guitar opening suggests its going to be a nice
mellow song he starts with his voice at a beautiful level. the backing gains a
nice horn sound, then the guitar riff changes in a perfect blend so and does
again its beautiful, it then goes back to the starting riff, then more
instuments are added like the drums, building up the song, it plays like this
for a while so you can get the feel of it. And of course if the music builds up
so does his voice and he comes in slightly stronger, he sings the chorus again
but in a different tone as the first one, he sings it in the same tone again but
then sings in a much higher tone strong and powerful to give the last track a
perfect feel, the end of it is ruined slightly by a chorus of 'lala's' it doesnt
suit it very well and with about 2 minutes left its the longest song on the
album but only now is it starting to bore you 8/10
MY favourite song on the album is dears and freesia~op. 1~ as they have alot of
emotion and i feel that is important in an album of this type, the major problem
with the album was it was too repetative for me."