cosmeticROBOT – Kirameki★Onepiece August 21, 2009

Track Listing

1. Kirameki★Onepiece
2. Harehare☆Hallelujah
3. Kankou Imagination

1. Kirameki★Onepiece

We enter our 2nd single from the ladies and right from the start it’s definitely no “SERIAL NUMBER 99″.  The music is still electronic, but mix in their idol styles and we get this A-side.  The girls aren’t on any vocal instruments which is pretty good, but their harmonization is still left to be desired.  It’s also known that one of the girls has a solo part which is an upgrade.  I wanna say, it’s alright but SN99 has a longer lasting effect on me.

2. Harehare☆Hallelujah

The first B-side of the single oddly reminds of Perfume’s “Elevator” with it’s mid-tempo synth bounce factor.  Though I’m actually liking this track a lot since it’s catchy and has repetitive moments that work for it pretty nicely.  It seems the girls are into vocoder here and the all the girls get their own parts which is so much better.  It’s even more idol-like that the A-side though, so I’m not sure if that’s good or bad.

3. Kankou Imagination

The last track of the single, Kankou Imagination is like the cute that I would stay away from.  It’s a very happy-happy song with monotone lyrics that could bother people a lot.  I guess the song is alright, but somehow I’m totally not enjoying the vocals here because their really cute and not together….

 

 

cosmeticROBOT finally lets PREVIEWS of their 2nd single out and from what was heard of the previews, this was actually a more solid single than “SERIAL NUMBER 99″.  Though I’m noticing the route they are going isn’t a more edgier sound, I’ll take this too.  Kirameki★Onepiece is a nice single, but we need dedicated fans to buy their stuff and leak out fully.

cosmeticROBOT – SERIAL NUMBER 99 February 11, 2009

Track Listing

1. SERIAL NUMBER 99
2. Sentimental time machine
3. RABUROBOBO
4. MERUSHIMELODY

1. SERIAL NUMBER 99

I was surprised at how a debut can really say about a group.  cosmeticROBOT’s debut A-side comes pretty aggressively and has a sparkly sound, but has a pretty heavy beat to it.  Nahu, Ayumi, and Ami seem harmonize well under the ever so famous vocoder, but the main focus is on the beat.  I can sense some guitar as well….it’s quite interesting even though Perfume has won up the same idea in “GAME”.  Still, aggressive debut = win.

2. Sentimental time machine

I’ve heard that this was a cover track, but I’m not entirely sure.  The trio here take on a more girly-idol track with that cute synth.  Problem is it doesn’t seem to really go anywhere and stays mainly the same throughout.  It’s just really too simplistic and oddly has a fantasy sound to it but it doesn’t help much.

3. RABUROBOBO

RABUROBOBO continues the more girly side of J-tek, but this time it’s quite smooth and less boring.  I still don’t know who’s who in the song, but they seem to sound good when they get their solo parts throughout.  A simple piano addition can make the difference and it did and it even had an actual PV to it. 

4. MERUSHIMELODY

Yeah, we finish this single with another girly track, but it seems to have a nice dance beat unlike the last two.  Like I said, there’s just a lot of fantasy sounds and cute synth bleeps and bloops all over.  Once again the girls seem to have good voices in their solo part, but the chorus is where they come together and recite the title, but it’s sadly repetitive and annoying.  It’s ok…just like “SERIAL NUMBER 99″ it got a live PV so meh from me.

 

 

Compared to portable, I think of cosmeticROBOT as an equal group to them.  They both can conjure up really good songs, but unlike portable who 2 tracks were really great, cosmeticROBOT was half/half for me.  Since they are somewhat of an idol group as one of the members was part of one beforehand, Sentimental time machine and RABUROBOBO was just not special, but SN99 and MERUSHIMELODY are pretty good J-tek tracks.  Can’t wait to see more from them.