I totally love the sample of monochrome. It's weird, but it's a little different from the typical "weird" I think of with Kajiura's music. I'm a sucker for accordions and I like the pluckiness of the song, so I think this song might be an album favorite for me. Really happy to hear her compose something this off-kilter again.
Identify is nice, though it's pretty much just some rock song.
But even if it sounds similar to songs that already exist, it's still not something that makes me think "Kajiura," even with the love come down comparisons. In any other context but a Kalafina album, this song would probably be the opposite of "variety," but I think it's kind of different for them...?
Maybe that's just me getting caught up in the harder-sounding guitars. Anyway, it sounds like a song I wouldn't seek out, but that I would enjoy if it came on in my playlist. Maybe it'll grab my attention more after I listen to it enough times.
Musunde isn't getting much praise here, huh? I can see why, but I kind of like it. It has this fresh "falling through the sky" feeling. I'm afraid I might change my attitude after hearing the full thing though, since it seems like a song that I would only like for a short time before it started to grate on me. Even the end of the clip already feels like it's pushing it. I like Hikaru and Keiko better than Wakana in this. She kind of bores me in this one.
Sorairo... It sounds good, but I don't know if I'll be crazy about it. It has potential... Feels like a mix of traditional music and traditional Kajiura, which is always nice. At the very least, it's a respectable-sounding song from Kalafina, and I think this album needed that.