LLLL - Mirror

http://lllltokyo.bandcamp.com/

Heya, sorry for the delay on this one, I meant to have it up yesterday but my schedule got really full really quickly. So without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and review this wonderful, wonderful, ep.

Oh, "Oddness" is fantastic. Everything on this ep is fantastic. Their earlier work is fantastic. I don't know exactly what it is about this jpop/chillwave/DFRNT-esque group, but it is just wonderful. All of the songs have this deep writhing bass that is just... Fun. Dark, really dark, and full of reverb, but it just draws me in so well, this song in particular. I have no idea what the vocals are saying, but it's so soft and airy that I don't really care. It's like a lullaby met an action movie, and said "screw it, we can do this." I'm so very, very, glad that they did, to. "I Wish You" steps up to the plate with some big shoes to fill, and starts off very video-game-intro-y with a new wave twist. Those vocals slither their way back in, with a vox that is both unsettling and entrapping. The drop after she says "I wish you..." is phenomenal. Simplistic, that low bass stays in the picture, but the stabbed keyboard/synth is golden. Back into the verse with the same feeling, heads into the chorus again with a sound I didn't notice before, a sort of submarine noise. The song takes another turn, into a really soft synth playing in the background, but sort of taking the stage. Then there's the isolated "I wish you..." again, and I'm just hooked. Great song. Everything sort of fades out into a sweet lo-fi, and relaxes but cleans up back into where it was.

Lastly, we have "Lost Place". My only real downside to this ep is that it's an ep, I would love to about five or six more of these, but I can understand the difficulty in that. "Lost Place" starts off really calmly, and keeps that up for about twenty seconds. The song breaks open as that deep bass, delay, and reverb on the track kicks the door down and says "enjoy this song" and who am I to disobey? I think I'd have to say my two favorite things about this album are the vocalist and that deep but square bass. It's just lovely. The song does that thing where it relaxes and then becomes super awesome again. I think I personally prefer "I Wish You" to this, but it's still a fantastic song, it's a lot less crowded than the other songs are, and that's kind of nice. However, that tends to be what gives the songs on this ep their flair; there's a lot going on, but you can feel every bit of it.

I'm absolutely in love with this ep, and I'm super duper excited for whatever the next ep (hopefully album (fingers crossed)) is, so I can get that too. I can't personally think of anybody who would not like this ep, so I've been showing it to everyone I know, and will continue to do so. I hope you do too, enjoy!