I finally got down to writing about Radwimps’ 5th album which I’ve been looping ever since it came out on the March 11. I’m not much of a music critic, but due to my inability to suppress my fandom for the band, I shall have a couple of comments to go along with each track.
Let’s start off with the album’s title, 「アルトコロニーの定理」, a coined phrase by Noda. あるところに (Arutokoroni) is a fairytale-like phrase, which translates to “In a certain place”. Besides that, アルト (Alto) describes the range he managed to be able to sing in this album, and コロニー (Colony) gives the feel of not being alone. 定理 means theorem. Noda loves math, and hoped for this album to be able to serve as an answer to some of life’s mysteries, just like how other theorems would serve as an answer to a problem.
Hurray, yet another Bump of Chicken release. This time, it’s an album with all their past singles’ B-sides compiled. Running at 13 tracks, the last song, Present, is a totally brand new track.
I never knew of Takahashi Hitomi until the day of I heard this song in Toshokan Sensou’s OP. I’m really hooked on her voice and this song to an extent that I’ve tried to the very best of my moonspeak linguistic abilities to translate this song. After all, it doesn’t seem like anyone’s going to do it, since she isn’t exactly popular.
Pardon my mistakes, as I have only picked up Japanese for less than a year, 9 months to be exact. Also, the only person who has checked through this translation is me, since I couldn’t get anyone else. There’s always a first time for everything, I guess.
Corrections and suggestions for improvement are greatly welcomed. よろしくね。
My hands were probably grabbing CDs off the shelves too quickly when I purchased this album. I swear it somehow got into the basket without me knowing.
Anyway, this album was released on 19th March 2008, which happens to coincide with Mikuni’s 28th birthday. Oh no, I actually forgot about her birthday! What the hell’s wrong with me >_<
