The Ado saga continues…
“Zanmu” is the follow up to Ado’s 2022 debut album “Kyogen”, now if you have read my review on “Kyogen” (which you should definitely do btw 😉) it isn’t a really good album, it is an album with a lot faults and not a lot of compliments to be directed at it. It suffers from many production, song writing issues and then there is Ado herself not being able to handle being a tolerable singer. The main thing I am ... read more
review up on youtube: https://youtu.be/0wu0tHoSIYs
Ado is maybe the biggest popstar in Japan right now. She’s been doing sold out international tours, Show from this album topped the Billboard Japan charts for like three months straight, she did a whole collab with one piece. She is huge right now. And I’ve always been very hit or miss on her music. Kyogen was generally fine and inoffensive, while her covers album found a way to make her a worse singer than Hatsune Miku, who ... read more
Cannot properly review this with it being in a different language, wherefore I will not rate it. But this is what I think.
The J-Pop portions were bad. They sounded bad and uninspired. But when Ado gets into a raspier voice and more of the Rock side comes out, it sounds a whole lot better