Azz's "Take it & Easy"

(The next 7 reviews were done in the middle of nowhere without any internet, so there will be edits at the end of them, probably.)

Artist: Azz (Japan)
Album: Take it & Easy

Haha, look at that. Our last review of a fucking band that starts with A. Great.
Unfortunately, I’m writing this on the road to Spokane (AKA Hell) on a barely functioning laptop, so the noise of the road might drown out some of the music I’m hearing. Bear with me here.

Anyway anyway.

If I’m not mistaken, a member of AURA is in this band? Was it the drummer, KoReds? I can’t remember and don’t have internet to check. Moving on.

Junky Business is the first track, and the only track I have heard before. I loved it a year and a half ago, probably just because it features fucking brass instruments. I used to have a real boner for brass, you know. Oh, the actual song. Well, it has some pretty funky 70s esque guitar, a horn section and one obnoxious vocalist. Dear lord, he is annoying. My tastes in music were very awful a year and a half ago, apparently. Ch-rist.

Reminder: I have no internet. And this song is written in kana and kanji. So, um…Para o (kanji) ka seyou (I tried my best) does little to improve the singing. I realize that this band isn’t being entirely serious (I’d be embarrassed if they were), but that doesn’t excuse annoying music. It’s almost scarily peppy. I feel slightly ill.

Oh god, Love Song. It’s going to be stupid. It is stupid, what a surprise. It sounds like he’s fucking hiccupping. “A-I shi-te-mooo”. Maybe he knows Phew. Seriously, stop repeating “aishitemo”, it’s sounds so terrible.

Sweet Rain… Let’s see how my theory of everything “rain” being some kind of ballad. Well, so far so good for that, it’s slower.. It’s just… (siiiigh) I hope this band has something else to fall back on, because maybe music isn’t their thing. Regardless of whether of not you deserve it, if people buy your material, you’re a success. Were Azz a success? For the sake of my sanity, I kind of hope not. (Sorry Azz fans, if you exist out there.) Yeah, there are worse bands/artists out there that actually sell (looking at you, ICP), but Azz are in that group, too.

Ano (kanji) ka (kanji) demo (kanji)iyou ni. Catchy title when you can only read 100 kanji. I think... I think this band is somehow more annoying than most other 90s V-kei ish music. I don’t know if they’re V-kei or 90s, but it sounds like it. Don’t give me that “Visual-Kei is a clothing style, not a musical genre, you’re ignorant!” because it does have a sound all its own. A tired, overrated, no-different-from-American-music sound. I apologize, but I say what I want! Honestly, this is godawful. I can’t stand it. I feel slightly homicidal after listening to this song.

(kanji) onna ga (kanji) o mitai (kanjikanji) ni (Hey, I knew some of the kanji that time) sounds less similar than the other ones, thank God. It has some kind of 60s feel to it, or something, I don’t know. My brain is fried, partly because our car has no air conditioning, and because of this mind-numbing music. I’m just dumbfounded that no one in the studio told them, “Hey. Stop that. You’re embarrassing us all.”

1 out of 5.
Luckily for me, it was a mini-album. Unluckily for me, it was a very bad mini-album. Stay away, please just stay away from this record.

Oh my, there’s a tough biker in front of us wearing sandals and socks. That’s so hardcore of you, random biker. Rock on.

Next up is Bad Baby, the first non-Japanese review! Yaaaaay! I’m so fucking excited! I might be reviewing last year’s TOKYO DARK CASTLE sometime, too. Looking forward to that, to say the least.

Edit: And yes, I did come back to listen to the album once I was off the road without all that background noise. It sounds even worse.
Edit 2: And no, I couldn't find any answers to my questions.