I Loved Yesterday continues Yui's winning streak -- it's Yui's third release along with the second to top the Oricon charts, using the debut album making it to the superior five. It's a deserved success, though there's not much to differentiate it from her previous efforts; is still acoustic guitar, professional arrangements (no budget cuts on strings, climax nothing in close proximity to orchestra size), and many Yui's singing, that is a wise move, since she sounds childish, nevertheless the good form of childish, as well as strong and versatile. There are moments when Yui almost shows the opportunity to become a Japanese Avril Lavigne, as an example, within the rocking interlude "No Way" specifically on "Daydreamer," at the outset of which she even is able to replicate Avril's bad girl vibe in their own voice. However, besides those moments, Yui is content to visit a safe musical route, being dedicated to her trademark semi-ballads and relying more about channeling the continuous flow of sweet guitar pop than about the strength of individual songs, that can in the mellow and dynamic variety, but have a similar emotional content, the keywords definitely being "summertime" and "youth" (titles like "Summer Song" and "My Generation" make that obvious). That approach ensures that I Loved Yesterday runs possibility of becoming background sound -- but for the other hand, the grade of the songs is high enough for making the record a superb mood setter, because positive and competent music is, in fact, rarely a bad thing, and "summer" plus "youth" usually equals "a superb time".
Tracklist
- Laugh Away
- My Generation
- Find Me
- No Way
- Namidairo
- Daydreamer
- Love Is All
- I Will Love You
- We Will Go
- OH YEAH
- My Friend
- LOVE & TRUTH
- Am I Wrong?
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