The Daily Spin, April 23
kokua | Progress
Welcome back to the Daily Spin, the series in which I review 365 albums during 2023.
Each album will be given a rating on a scale from 0 to 10. You can look at the entire set here. Additionally, you can check out a list of my favorite song from each album right here.
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Album: Progress (2016)
Artist: kokua
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I’ve never really been much for J-rock - nothing against the language barrier, rather the balladic nature of a lot of the songs I’ve been familiarized with over time tends to push some of the wrong buttons.
I hate to be that guy that says “this is Persona music” because frankly, it’s a genre far greater than one game series that happens to have garnered a sizable Western audience - so I’m glad to say that this clearly doesn’t fit the bill. Whew.
I don’t dislike this, not by a longshot, but it’s just not really my cup of tea. Too often, it feels a bit like yearning turned up to eleven, and that’s fine in small doses, but over an extended run, it doesn’t quite click.
Rating: 7.1/10
Best Tracks: Blue; Progress
Worst Tracks: 1995
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this is a very cool thing
however i have not listened to the album as i am at school right now and literally every music streaming service is blocked on my school computer. i could turn this into a rant about the american education system but instead i am simply going to end the comment here
i might listen to the album when i get home (by "listen" i mean "get 3 songs in and then give up cause i might not like it")