Megurine Luka & Hakaine Maiko - Future

And another screamo work, this time closer to mainstream standards. Much like the previous one, it lies heavily on Engrish lyrics. On the one hand, Luka handles English faaaar better than Lily does. On the other hand, she sings it instead of shouting, which undermines greatly the former point. To sum it up, the situation isn’t *that* bad. Luka’s vocals are honed well enough, and she sounds rather nice.

There isn’t any synthetics here. Hyahyao’s put great efforts in mastering, the sound quality is excellent. Mainstream standards mean we’ve got mighty double bass drums support and pretty hard breakdown. Maiko tries to step in here, but there’s not much space for her actually…


Nicovideo link:

Nicoviewer link: http://nicoviewer.net/sm23169861

Megurine Luka - I'm not alone

I think the brightest moment of the new Hyahyao’s song “I'm not alone” is it's beginning. Let’s say it’s rather promising beginning. Heavy metal turning into metalcore; harsh, rasping guitar sound, rigorous strokes of bass drums… Not that all of it vanishes as the song continues, no, but with the beginning like this you clearly understand that the guy has great potential.

And he hasn’t squeezed out the maximum from that potential. But don’t get me wrong, people. Hyahyao shows here well enough class to make the song great. “I'm not alone” is a distinctive step from the mainstream post-hardcore sound. It might not be a big step, but it clearly bears an author’s mark on it. And it never was an easy way.

Ah, almost forgot about Luka! Well, a nice chunk of lyrics is in English. And Luka’s Engrish is so… Engrish… So you have been warned :)

Nicovideo link:

Nicoviewer link: http://nicoviewer.net/sm22552280

MP3 download: http://nicosound.anyap.info/sound/sm22552280

After applying quite a powerful zoom we can argue that Luka IS present on the following picture:

Video’s art by Ameno.