Agh! My computer is apparently too slow to handle the previews on iTunes' website =X - I really wanna hear these previews. T.T - Also I've noticed no one is talking about SAMSARA. Is that one just not noteworthy or something?

(Also I noticed that some songs were re-uploaded in higher quality, including GET UP and MY FIRST LAST; will listen.)

EDIT - Got around to listening to GET UP and MY FIRST LAST. ... What can I say? Amazing.

GET UP - Okay, so GET UP is a very melodic song. It's nothing that particularly stands out among any of HYDE's work, but it's still an amazing song. The lyrics are necessary for further analysis.

MY FIRST LAST - Okay, this is where it becomes really intense, and rightfully so as it is the final track of the album. HYDE's vocals... are a bit off, I'm not going to lie. He sounds like he has a cold, but the beautiful, serene composition more than compensates for that. Aside from that, his voice magically fixes during the chorus. What makes this song most interesting is that you can understand most of the lyrics already. You can hear that HYDE put a lot of effort into the articulation of his English words in this song, and while the Japanese accent is still blatantly obvious, he sounds almost native English. But enough of that technical mumbo-jumbo. Is the song good? No, the song is fucking AMAZING. To say that it's worth $30 plus shipping in itself would be an understatement. When I read the description that HYDE put for the song, I expected something emotional and thought-provoking. As usual, HYDE did not disappoint. As I write this, I'm still in chills after listening to it.

HYDE's done a lot of emotional, thought-provoking pieces, but what makes this stand out is the way one, by one I mean "I," would react to it. In most of these kind of pieces, I feel like crying all the way through, but this one... I don't feel like crying, I feel like just... sitting there with my mouth wide open (like a bubbling idiot) and just staring into space and letting the song fill my head. It's weird because unlike most of his songs, I don't feel like I'm in the perspective of the speaker, but of the person listening to the speaker. It feels like a sorrowful good-bye that you just have to accept. You feel happy for him, but you feel sad for him at the same time. It's an awkward feeling that is very difficult to describe in words.

I look forward to seeing what they come up with for the PV!