Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus

A few months ago, in april to be exact, Ayumi Hamasaki released her newest Studio Album called Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus. And I thought I should finally review it here with the information that her new album is released in december.

As the title suggests it is a Rock Album. Not.

Japanese Album titles are often exaggerated. The CD sure has some rock tracks but as every Ayu Release she has some ballads as well.

This time I bought the DVD edition. Mainly because I like the cover more than the CD only version. In addition I got a picture booklet from her photoshoot in London. There are some really nice pictures in it but when I tried to take some pictures they did not turn out well.

There are 15 tracks on all versions:

• THE introduction
• Microphone
• count down
• Sunset -LOVE is ALL-
• BALLAD
• Last Links
• montage
• Don’t look back
• Jump!
• Lady Dynamite
• Sexy little things
• Sunrise -LOVE is ALL-
• meaning of Love
• You were …
• RED LINE -for TA-[album version]

The album as a whole is once again a good one. But not everything about an Ayu album is packed with gold. Once again the buyer gets filler tracks which are just annoying and a waste of time. I buy a CD to hear the singer/songstress and not to listen to instrumental tracks. So THE introduction, montage and Jump! are tracks I skip when listening to the CD.

But overall I really like the CD because there are a lot of tracks I enjoy listening to. Microphone, BALLAD, Lady Dynamite, Sexy little things, Sunrise -LOVE is ALL- and meaning of Love are tracks I could listen to the whole day. Even tough soem of them are ballads.

If you are one lucky person, you can see Ayus PVs on her official youtube channel.

When I ordered it from CDJapan, my trusted shop for music from Japan, I also got a special poster. I was really happy to recieve it.