Kalafina new song "heavenly blue"

Yes I completely agree that the song is so repetitive :( I don't know what to say about the song. Hikaru's parts are attractive (though I can't really enjoy it due to the effects I've said before), they keep the song from being too generic but at the same time they really stand out and don't match the rest of the song. Or maybe the rest of the song that doesn't match the aggressive verse. The reffrain is sooo anime generic, the guitar solo serves nothing to the song, the key change on the end of the song came out of nowhere. Hikaru's parts are 'the more Kalafinaesque' part of the song for me, unlike Daiima's (?) opinion but the reffrain feels like eternal blue again I feel like Hikaru's parts are there to make the song feels like Kalafina and keep the song from being to FJ-ish but then it's just drowned by the rest of the song. tldr : Kalafina should do ED only from now on, their OPs are disjointed (HnS), too FJ-ish (to the beginning - well it was only Kajiura who makes the song but still Kalafina EDs don't suffer from these), or both (like this song) favorite part : the Kajiurago in the beginning.
 
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Thank you @D-chan2510, I just listened to the full version. Definitly, I totally disagree with @ritardando : my favorite parts are almost everything (once the initial surprise past), especially Wakana's one (as a good news, it's mostly Wakana being the lead voice here) except for the very beginning, which I find too "artificial". Even with Hikaru as main lead, her voice sounds too much autotuned and I like Kalafina especally for not needing to be heavily autotuned (that's why I just can't understand why Hatsune Miku's so popular ^^). Kalafina making some FJ-ish songs sometimes are no problem from me, it brings diversity in Kalafina works. But well, it's not (for the moment) being to rise among my favorite songs: again, to much autotune, even sounds "robotic" at some moments. :comeback:
 
Well if you pay attention to what I said before, I found the effect on Hikaru's voice quite bothering but the melody lines are actually attractive. The rest of the song, on the other hand, is bland and not memorable. Well, Wakana's part before the reffrain was nice but it's just that. I'm not okay with Kalafina songs feel like FJ and vice versa because it'll blur the difference/distinctiveness of each group that makes them unique. If they're going to have a same feeling might as well make one group only, with Wakana and Keiko being in both group. But well, it's a matter of taste. Hope you don't mind and not feel insulted (I feel like I've to do this otherwise people will keep quitting the forum lol). And thank you to D-chan for posting the link! :bow:
 
^No problem.
I just couldn't accept that "heavenly blue" part at the end:glower:
 
Well this is definitely the most random song of Kalafina ever, with the worse transitions too. Like i had said before its like 4 songs mixed together: consolation, signal, ashita no keshiki, to the beggining. Each of the melodies would be ok as individual song, but together they are like a salad where you have put very sweet, sour, bitter, and salty ingredients together, without shaking it :S

I have listen to the song like 4 times, and I'm already tired of it :cry:

Yuki must have been really tired or drunk when she made it :(

Prelude on the other hand is much nicer! :D
 
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Hmm well the structure of the song is generic like an A, B , A,B Kajiuran bit then B followed by C music structure. I liked the Kajiuran bit and I do like the " conversations" between the signal Hikaru and the eternal blue Wakana with Keiko buffering the two. If the Lisani recordings sound better than the TV versions then I might go for the Blue LE edition then!

Btw I'm not sure if anyone has noticed but there is a Progressive LE on Cd Japan for £61 :comeback:
 
Thank you very much for the link^^

My impressions are the same of the TV size. I love Hikaru's verses and Wakana's pre-refrain part but I can't still enjoy the chorus. It doesn't fit the song, plus sounds too FJ-ish to me (I love FJ but Kalafina is Kalafina). Overall it's a good song but It has too grow on me.
 
the "heavenly blue" in the end of the song gave me inspiration for a track with all the parts of songs where the english song title is sung so far these are:
heavenly blue, eternal blue, elemental, dream scape, sprinter, aria, adore, in the land of twilight under the moon, lulaby, I swear, maybe tomorrow

:ayashii:
 
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George, I'm pretty sure 9/10 english titled Kajiura songs has the title phrase in its lyrics.
 
Really? I don't hear ashita in it really, I hear more misterioso, with the string melody, and the drumming I guess, though that is more ttb. Now that I heard the full version it isn't too much like ttb, since that's a little more dark than this song. I guess though I will have to wait until the translation of the song, but it seems more happy, except for Hikaru's parts that is. I do love that Kajiuran verse/part in the middle though.
 
I still like it. I agree that it's repetitive, and a bit FJ-ish...but I still like it...a lot. Probably because I'm too biased :XD:
 
Hmm, really not so sure of this. Something sounds wrong, and I can't quite tell what. Everything sounds too chaotic (and I love Consolation and Signal) and clustered, so I can't quite focus on any particular part of it before three others come barging in. Definitely sounds like someone blended a few of FictionJunction's songs together with a bit of Misterioso.

I mostly agree with ritardando's description actually, although I heavily disagree about HnS. HnS flows fine in my opinion, but that's not the topic of this thread so I'll leave it at that.

Still seems weird they'd put a new song on a best-of anyway, even more so when it's not even close to best-of material. It might grow on me but currently it's sitting in the same area as Mirai and Mune no Yukue as the very few Kalafina songs I don't like.
 
Just listened to it 3 times in a row. I actually really like it!:dote: I have to disagree with most of the negativity that's being poured down onto this song. Well, I also think it is a bit disjointed but I like all the individual parts of it and that's exactly the cool thing about this song for me. It's kind of unpredictable and I like songs which surprise me. But the winner part for me is the bridge! Love the harmony there so much!:love: Also love the variation of the chorus towards the end. I really don't think that Heavenly Blue it too repetitive. It's about the same as many of their songs actually. I can't see why many of you think it is more than other songs, honestly.

I'm really surprised about the dislikes of this song.:swt: I'm definitely already liking it more than Consolation and Signal. It's far from being one of their best works but it's still a very good song imho.
 
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Really? I don't hear ashita in it really, I hear more misterioso, with the string melody, and the drumming I guess, though that is more ttb. Now that I heard the full version it isn't too much like ttb, since that's a little more dark than this song. I guess though I will have to wait until the translation of the song, but it seems more happy, except for Hikaru's parts that is. I do love that Kajiuran verse/part in the middle though.
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I actually I was serching for a song with a similar mood and speed to that part of the song, and AnK was the one I couldd think of, but yes, mysterioso is closer.

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Just listened to it 3 times in a row. I actually really like it!:dote: I have to disagree with most of the negativity that's being poured down onto this song. Well, I also think it is a bit disjointed but I like all the individual parts of it and that's exactly the cool thing about this song for me. It's kind of unpredictable and I like songs which surprise me. But the winner part for me is the bridge! Love the harmony there so much!:love: Also love the variation of the chorus towards the end. I really don't think that Heavenly Blue it too repetitive. It's about the same as many of their songs actually. I can't see why many of you think it is more than other songs, honestly.

I'm really surprised about the dislikes of this song.:swt: I'm definitely already liking it more than Consolation and Signal. It's far from being one of their best works but it's still a very good song imho.
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Well the real problem isnt the melody for me (which is pretty), but that the song takes styles from previous songs instead of having its own, and the disjoiness make it even more noticeable.

The song should have been 2- part and not 3-part, that way it could be more solid (for example keep hikaru and the first wakana part or the first and the second wakana part, or the hikaru part and the 2nd wakana part but not all 3. Btw, the part after the bridge is more pleasant to hear that the rest of the song, exactly due to this change ^^)
 
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Thank you @D-chan2510 for the links!

I actually really like this song lol the lyrics are kind of all over the place....so perhaps yuki was drunk when she wrote it, like @george1234 said :plot:lol kidding.
 
I agree with George. Kalafina has way more repetitive songs than this but the song is so disjointed it makes the repetitiveness more noticeable. I don't really mind repetitive songs when they're solid - signal for example. This song isn't solid at all. Hikaru's part in the beginning came out of nowhere from the kajiurago - then came Wakana's part that was kinda like her middle part in obbligato - and then the reffrain and they're all played on different keys. The song then repeats plus a key change in the end of second reffrain then suddenly came Kajiurago bridge and guitar bridge, which is tiring and do nothing for the song for me. Then came the final reffrain which is the original reffrain x 1.5 plus another key change in 'heavenly blue' that is really disturbing because suddenly the mood gets calmer as if they put a brake on this song. It's surprising, but not a good kind of surprise. Pattern/structure wise, this song is closer too obbligato but obbligato is way more solid even though it's longer because the flow between the verses and the reffrain is more solid even though the key changed too - and obbligato has a lot nicer guitar solo, if I may add. I agree with what George said about the song should be 2/2.5 part like obbligato and not 3.5 like this. This song is currently on my 'may put on the playlist only when I'm bored of other Kajiura songs' beside Haru wa Kogane, storytelling, and sapphire (which is nice but makes me sleepy).
 
My main problem isn't just the song. We get decent Wakana vocals in the first chorus then comes the second one and she sounds totally different. Tired, out-of-key, even, and that continues till the end of the song (and this is the freaking studio release). Why the weak vocals when she's such a good singer?

Then there's the arrangement (and general composition, really). It's messy. It doesn't transition well and there are plenty of unnecessary parts, as well as parts which could be rearranged to sound much better. I just don't find myself very fond of it. The guitar solo came from nowhere, the chorus to 2nd verse transition is worse than verse to chorus, and that ending, ugh.

And its really a shame, because I could see where Kajiura-san was going with this. You can tell it from the lyrics alone. Hikaru and Keiko in the beginning had the same dark rock grit Consolation and Signal had, which I love. Pre-chorus still had ddecent flow, and sounded pretty even with the fierce verses, but come the chorus and all that build up just drops. An anti-climatic chorus, which was supposed to be the core of the song.

Very mixed about this. I wonder about their 5th album a lot, and it's such a shame since they came off of KnGnN which was their best single in a long time.
 
I still was hoping for a Keiko solo part. I guess she gets a lot of love in the B-sides but since there is not one for this single, I was sad. (Yane, for example.) Well, hopefully their new album will have more of her, since you can't hear her all too well in HB.
 
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