I was digging through the OSV backlogs the other day, and I noticed that, for all the praise we’ve heaped upon freesscape (Emi Evans, Hiroyuki Muneta, et al), we don’t have a review of their debut album.
That changes today.
After the jump, our review of freesscape’s 2004 debut, “Fragile Perfection.” (more…)
In case you couldn’t tell, most of us here are completely in love with the NieR soundtrack. A big part of that soundtrack’s draw is the voice of Emi Evans, a London-born singer who is making a name for herself in Japan. While she’s been involved with the Etrian Odyssey Super Arrange Version series and NieR as far as the videogame industry is concerned, you may recall from our interview with her last month that her number one focus right now is on her trip-hop group, freesscape.
The group is comprised of Emi Evans on vocals, cello, piano, and Rhodes and Japanese composer, arranger and performer Hiroyki Muneta handling the music programming and a number of live instruments. While they are currently working on their third album, entitled “Now is the point at which I touch eternity,” we wanted to take a look back at the duo’s most recent album, Next Confusion, which was released in 2007.
This album in particular solidified the duo’s standing in the trip-hop genre, treading on territory familiar to fans of Bjork, Massive Attack, and even Radiohead at times. This contrasts greatly with their more stylistically diverse but equally interesting debut album, fragile perfection, which was released in 2004 (check out “Stretch” and “Little Miss Emily” on iTunes if you’re interested).
So, does Next Confusion stand up to Emi Evans’s recent achievements with the NieR soundtrack? Find out in our review after the jump. (more…)
