Obelisk is indeed t3h awesome – see it in action guys the beginning sounds a bit like one of the instrumentals off the Macross F OSTs, doesn’t it? The chorus was like OMG in the film ^_^ it’s all about the chorus in this song. The lyrics of the last chorus feel like an instruction on how to do CPR haha

By the way Yousei made a little appearance in the film too ^^V

Gira gira summer = Kylie. For real. Meh, I’ll skip this and Izorado

Tenshi ni nacchatta…so nice…sleepy….

Universal Bunny: mixed-bag but is propably epic when visuals are counted with it. I really like the urgent “pumping” whenever song speeds up and the chorus is great high-energy frenzy. But as has come up often the entire C-part/bridge (I think both are there) is utter mess. Verses are okayish so overall this is somewhat above average. And what’s up with keyboards in the beginning? I don’t like their sound much…

Pink Monsoon: best track and I very much agree with mai how it fits Sheryl etc. It’s surprisingly original one and once I got over the initial bafflement it caused I’ve started to enjoy it greatly. I wouldn’t call it “sexy” though. Filtered, fuzzied, manipulated etc. to hell to great effect. I love this track.

Gira Gira Summer: as has come up couple of times there so needs to be Ranka cover of this song in second film. *Must* be. I’ll go and kidnap Kawamori and make him write such scene to second film if nothing else works. Fun and very catchy. But this really needs Ranka cover of it, the “watashi no kare wa pilot” vocal style would be absolutely perfect for this track. And though I like this I have to say Gira ain’t Kira to me!

Izorado: my reaction to verses is exact opposite to mai’s one. I really dig them – I never thought I’d hear tribute to classic rock in MF. May’n can do rock vocals well. I also dig the choruses (since vocals are manipulated, sliced etc. to hell I’m not sure how much we’d gain from Origa singing this overall *shrug* ) and I love the contrasting overall structure of the song. It’s quite original. Another favourite of mine

Aenai Toki: FINALLY Sheryl song of this style (ballad? whatever) that’s good and memorable. One of May’n better vocals and the beautiful melody certainly helps with this. I still really don’t like her nasal – which distracts me at some parts – but overall this is great performance and good track. But for some reason – just like with Yousei – I can barely remember this song afterwards. I don’t know why =/

Eien Ni: utterly forgettable and quite boring.

Obelisk: Only one able to challenge Pink Monsoon. I love the melody and chorus is *awesome*. All around this is Northern Cross-lite, I feel. Really great track. Reminds me of GitS for some reason. With reasonably stunning visuals would propably emerge as my favourite song.

Tenshi ni Nacchatta (universal version): vastly better than single arrangement. I rather like it when listening to it but afterwards I barely remember anything about the track. It’s the same thing as with Yousei – while listening to it I think “this is beautiful” but afterwards… nothing. This song just doesn’t involve me on emotional level and I don’t know why. =(

Well, these are my thoughts on album. Feel free to disagree etc.

Overall – while slightly disappointing in comparison to other MF OSTs – this is good album which most importantly *feels* somehow very in character. I’m not listening to May’n singing, I’m listening to Sheryl. For some reason this album reminds me a lot of 80s though. Maybe it’s all the processing etc. going on?

Ones I listen to most: Pink Monsoon, Obelisk, Izorado and Gira Gira Summer. And Universal Bunny even if only for choruses.

Xard

Fave tracks: Universal Bunny, Eien, Gira Gira Summer (Ranka would be a better vocalist for this) & Obelisk.

There’s something familar about the ‘reason for your love’ part in Obelisk, just after the 1st chorus. Where have I heard it again…? o.O