Another album I was looking forward to (though nowadays I’m a bit skeptic when IOSYS is involved), and it didn’t let me down! Or desert me! Okay I know that was a very unfunny pun.
Now let’s see the tracklist.
Titles and vocals:
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star river - Asana |
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02 |
MILLION HIT PHANTASIA - Fujiwara Marina, Yun |
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03 |
midnight lightning bolt - Takahashi Nana |
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04 |
世紀末ダウジング伝説 - Hirabuki Yuuko |
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05 |
one-sided love - ℃iel |
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06 |
天狗アイドル撮影会 ~Shoot the Dog Ear!! in 4F 小会議室 - Nomiya Ayumi |
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07 |
ORANGE Express → 西ら-89b - Yun |
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08 |
紫雨UNITED まさかのアリス突撃編 - Ayu, Izabel, Iwasugi Natsu |
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09 |
この同人ゴロ!有明から出て行け!- Fujiwara Marina, Yun, Izabel, Iwasugi Natsu, Ayu, Yamamoto Momiji, Abe Kokoro |
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10 |
あのころの君と - Yamamoto Momiji, Ichinose Ruru |
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11 |
夢が終わるまでに - Witch |
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12 |
The Crystallized Ocean - Asana |
Originals:
01. Touhou Seirensen / Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind 02. Touhou Youyoumu / Necrofantasia 03. Touhou Youyoumu / Diao ye zong (Withered Leaf) Touhou Youyoumu / Charming Domination 04. Touhou Seirensen / A Tiny, Tiny, Clever Commander Touhou Seirensen / At the End of Spring 05. Touhou Youyoumu / Ghostly Band ~ Phantom Ensemble 06. Touhou Bunkachou / Wind God Girl 07. Touhou Youyoumu / Diao ye zong (Withered Leaf) 08. Touhou Koumakyou / Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room Touhou Youyoumu / Doll Judgment Touhou Eiyashou / Love-coloured Master Spark 09. Touhou Koumakyou / Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room Touhou Youyoumu / Doll Judgment Touhou Youyoumu / Ultimate Truth Touhou Eiyashou / Love-coloured Master Spark Touhou Fuujinroku / The Venerable Ancient Battlefield 10. Touhou Youyoumu / Bloom nobly, cherry blossoms of Sumizome 11. Touhou Koumakyou / Apparitions Stalk the Night Touhou Koumakyou / Beloved Tomboyish Girl Touhou Eiyashou / Stirring an Autumn Moon ~ Mooned Insect Touhou Fuujinroku / Because Princess Inada Is Scolding Me Touhou Chireiden / The Sealed-Away Youkai ~ Lost Place 12. Touhou Youyoumu / Paradise ~ Deep Mountain Touhou Youyoumu / Crystallized Silver
The first track is a generic Cosmic mind vocal track, done right. Not as good as Sound Online’s Hydrangea for example, but still good. The high pitched sound effects worked quite well.
Second track is a strange IOSYS-ish Necrofantasia, something about genius Yukari, money and stuff. It was fun listening to it once, but not particularly good.
As for the third track, I usually like Takahashi Nana’s style with her engrish, but this time I didn’t like it much. And the same could be said about track four, I’m a sucker for Nazrin’s theme (and stage theme), but this was just no-like.
Fifth is a Phantom Ensemble vocal track, which is rare by itself, and it comes with Ciel vocal! Also, it’s very nicely done. I enjoyed this track back and fourth.
Sixth track. Easy going and fun Wind God Girl, IOSYS is good at making these. And as I mentioned earlier, I can’t resist Aya’s themes, not nowadays, much thanks to Double Spoiler.
I really don’t have much good to say about seventh track.
Eight is Touhou rap style again, this time girls being the singers! I loved it for some unknown reason, though generally I’m not for rap.
Ninth is more like a Drama CD track with some vocal moments, which I enjoyed, but definitely not a track to put in my playlist.
Tenth track was pretty avarage, the pitch was a bit too high for this track in my opinion.
Now there’s track eleven. I love it, I love all of the original tracks, and Apparitions stalk the night and Lost place are pretty rare. Guitar was badass, I loved Witch’s voice (though I haven’t heard her name before, but looking forward to her songs in the future), and it was an amazing crossfade altogether. Thank you IOSYS.
Finally the last track was good for an epilogue, but I have to admit I didn’t like it much.
So Touhou Crystallized Ocean was a very enjoyable album, with some very high quality tracks this time. Highly recommended. If I’d have to give it a score it would be somewhere between 9 and 10, leaning toward the latter.
Hi, novalisk. I enjoyed this album so much like you. It’s so fucking awesome, it keeps me listening to it over and over. My fav one is one-sided love 😀
Question, do you know where can I find the lyrics of this album?
Greet!
Hi there!
I’m glad you liked it. Since then it grew even more on me too. =)
I’d say it’s one of my favourite album so far, though I still didn’t get to listen to all of them.
Unfortunately I don’t know where to find the lyrics, was looking for it too.