Lithium Binge

Album : 3 Artist : tricot Label : Topshelf Records LB Rating : 5/5 3 is the 3rd full-length studio album by Japanese rock band tricot. The album presents itself as a continuation of tricot's line of successful releases; it is also characterized by extremely unpredictable yet equally clever strong structures which the world considers as "math rock" but in the perspective of tricot, just their standard song-writing. In contrast with modern rock albums, 3 stands as a unique art piece. Although 3 seems to find its roots in prog rock or art rock, it isn't difficult to see that the album can also stand on its own, passing itself off as a completely new sound. And I gotta say, the new sound they established is just pure amazing. Album art cover for 3 (Image source: shi-no-kakaku.com) The core members of tricot: (from left to right) Motoko "Motifour" Kida, Ikumi "Ikkyu" Nakajima, and Hiromi "Hirohiro" Sagane. (Kinda weird for me to...

I am going to change the rating system in this blog, from 1-10 with 10 being the highest to 1-5 with 5 being the highest. The reason behind this change is that I felt that a scale of 10 seems unnecessarily complicated. The scale of 10 is not actually arbitrary; I have each score with its corresponding criteria saved on my phone. Such criteria is based mostly on strength of ideas, i.e., the rating increases the more life-changing and worldview-shaking the ideas are. What I value in media, literature, and games after all are their effect on my human-ness, not pertaining to the looming possibility of me becoming an android, but pertaining to this endless creating and re-establishing of my identity. In other words, if I can take away anything from the media I consume that may form part of who I am, I would rate such media higher than if I couldn't take away anything. I did this with a scale of 10, which I enjoyed at first, but deem it mendokusai now. There's just too many numbers...