Review: ReivieЯ - Agreement to us.

01. coarse affection
02. Shiroi Yume Kuroshiro no Kioku
03. Tsukiyo no Uta
04. DUALITY
05. voice

I couldn't do ten goes at this mini. After the awesomeness that was Declare and words I can't look at this mini properly and get the same feelings. Agreement to us. is generic and ReivieЯ's lost what little spark they've been gaining with their later releases. They seem to be moving in the direction of songs like DISASTER and that's a step back, not a step forward.

Essentially, Agreement to us. is the same song five times in a row. There's no change in pace or tempo and it's just one blistering hard track after the next. I'm a fan of harder music but even this is too much of the same for me. Everything just blends into one incomprehensible mess.

coarse affection is 3:26 seconds of Jey's badly processed death vocals underneath uninspiring guitars and comes off as nothing more than generic. The only saving grace is that it blends into the next track seamlessly, sometimes without me noticing that there was a change. Shiroi... just feels like a weaker DEEP INSIDE and is pretty much a continuation of coarse affection, which wasn't anything special to begin with. It takes a few pokes at something special but stops far too short of anything memorable to make this track worth listening to again.

Tsukiyo no Uta is too similar to the preceding track and is just a mess at the chorus. I can't grasp onto anything that the guitarists were doing. Everything else is pretty solid so if it weren't for that hiccup it might have been something, even though I wouldn't have remembered a damn thing when it was over. DUALITY is another trainwreck and sounds way too similar to coarse affection, which means this is also generic. It's a shame too - it's nothing but growling and screaming with nothing redeeming going for it.

voice is the only track worth listening to and if you manage to get this far you'll be so sick of the first four tracks sounding exactly alike you won't listen to something that's only slightly different. The intro's unique and even though Jey does nothing new he does it better than any other track on the mini. I guess if you're aiming for some new ReivieЯ this is the only thing I'd advise.

This mini is just average and such a disappointment seeing as how I was hoping for something great from ReivieЯ once again. In numerical terms, a flat 5.