Keys to Everything

1. Itsumademo Hibiku Kono melody
2. Drum-Line
3. Magical Speaker
4. Squall
5. WAVES ~Interlude~
6. Rakuen
7. Hello, Pansy!!
8. Tsuyoku Tsuyoku
9. Over Drive ~feat. SHOGO(175R)~
10. Sayonara no Uta
11. Doo na no yo? Saikin feat.Kosaka Daimaou 
12. Heya to Y Shirt to Watashi session with Ooe Senri
13. WAVES II ~Postlude~

Itsumademo Hibiku Kono melody is our opening. And what an opening. With a lovely vocal from Hiroko and some fantastic music arrangement, which throws you off very cleverly. Suddenly the slight ballad feeling shifts and in comes the classic jazz piece ‘In the mood’. I love this unusual mix and there is a lot of fun to be had listening to this song.

Track Rating; A

Kibun Jojo is very mihimaru GT. I adore the chorus, and the funky arrangement. It’s awesome! I don’t know what else to say.

Track Rating; A+

Drum-Line, unsurprisingly has a bit of a military feel to begin with and then, in true mihimaru GT, it’s mixed up with sheer pop and great vocals that no-one else would think of putting together. The chorus is full o’ drums, playing unusual rythms, that rock!

Track Rating; A+

I love the title. Here comes Magical Speaker. It begins with Miyake getting his go and then Hiroko joins in. I’m sorry but the song somehow becomes awesomer when they sing ‘magical speaker’ as if it’s something you’d say normally .

Track Rating; A+

Squall. Now, put your hands up all of you that immediately thought Final Fantasy when you read the title! Well, this isn’t an FF song. It begins with rain and then shifts into some rap parts. I love it when Hiroko raps, she always sounds really cute. Squall shifts around genres so much it’s hard to explain if you’re not listening to it.

Track Rating; A

An 18 second interlude of WAVES, ironically. Kind of pointless.

the opening of Rakuen begins with wave sounds. There’s the link. A fun islandy song, Rakuen had me from ‘hello’. The verses mainly consist of some sort of vocal and an island beat, but then in the chorus the song is given a more complete sound and it just puts the icing on the cake.

Track Rating; A+

Hello, Pansy !! says Hiroko, and I’m sure Pansy’s saying ‘Hi’. This song has so much pace it’s almost stupid… and oozes fun. How do they turn such fantastically strange lyrics into a great pop track? It’s almost superhuman. God! I’m just giving away A’s now!

Track Rating; A+

Tsuyoku Tsuyoku has a more pop-rock feel, due to the guitar used. Again, wonderfully pacey and there’s a lot of diversity contained with three minutes and fifty-two seconds of song.

Track Rating; A

Over Drive ~feat. SHOGO (175R)~ yeah, I’ve got no idea who SHOGO is but at least the song’s good. SHOGO’s inclusion doesn’t change the dynamic at all and they still throw out a great hyper song.

Track Rating; A

Sayonara no Uta, Goodbye Song. Right, well I was expecting this to be more ballady than it is (hello, look at the title!) but I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that it was more peppy than that. As always, Hiroko’s vocal energises the piece and the overall product is fantastic.

Track Rating; A

Doo Nanoyo Saikin ~feat. Furusaka Daimaou~. I have no idea what’s going on. It’s obviously them on a talkshow but as I don’t speak Japanese I don’t know what’s happening.

Heya to Y Shirt to Watashi session with Ooe Senri really shows off Hiroko’s lovely voice in a ballad situation. This really has to be listened to as proof that Hiroko is not just a cheesy pop singer.

Track Rating; A

Now we get 2 minutes of waves, which is absolutely pointless as it is the end of the album… oh well… at least it’s relaxing.

Overall…. mihimagic is all the hyper-pop goodness anyone could ever need.

Overall Rating; A/A+