DAICHI MIURA HIT
Nothing feels small Michael Jackson from Japan this will turn 30 years old. Already many achievements are carved by Daichi Miura from winning the most popular Japanese artist award on the MTV Europe Video Music Awards, and performing in a large concert venue many times.
In addition to his expertise in dancing and singing, Miura is also able to maintain his musicality very well on every album. In contrast to popular Japanese artist in general he gave a two-year time lag between albums so he can polish the music that will be presented becomes more elegant and better on each album. For her sixth album HIT she set aside 18 months from her previous album FEVER.
After he established himself as the Japanese prince and captain of the FEVER album which still leaves a generic EDM trail on his sixth album Miura actually designs the HIT as complex and as unique as possible but still in the packaging of dancepop and electropop. Just listen to the first single from this album "Cry & Fight" in collaboration with experimentalist musicians praised by Pitchfork named Seiho and produce the best pop song throughout 2016. "Cry & Fight" constantly pounding his fans with powerful Miura vocals as well as music games Seiho who sounds very wonky and complex like hearing the work of FKA Twigs, Sophie with PC Music or Flume. At the end of the songs Seiho and Miura provide a vigorous turbulence of vocals and beat that can make the listener feel emotional behind pop beat that sounds absurd but still comfortable to hear up to 100 times.
Miura's genius in choosing the song continued in "Darkest Before Dawn" which took the good side of EDM and mixed with the magnificent electropop music and cling to the basic chords so that it sounded very organic and did not disturb the audience with a vague boom, there was a feel of Goldfrapp in the album "Seventh Tree" especially in taking his electro-folk side. Miura proved to be flexible in following the Latin beat jazz ala Sergio Mendez from SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS in "Rise Up" resulting in a hybrid between pop, jazz, world music, latin, and hip hop that can make listeners baila !.
Miura also carries today's pop-rhythmic tunes into his own language and becomes more smooth-sounding like "Neon Dive" borrowing the beat from the deep house and then injected with the smooth future funk music. On "EXCITE" he picked up PC Music, K-Pop, UK Garage into a modern and fresh thing for a tokusatsu soundtrack like Kamen Rider. "(RE) PLAY" brings big beat music as well as speed garage groovy but keeps banging hard and able to make people dance. Miura arranges tropical house music that is carried on "Dare mo ga Dancer" so it sounds original and does not follow the grip of tropical house song in general. Positive song "Hang In There" was delivered with a very positive and able to provoke the spirit of the listener with chants of future house and nu-disco are right on target.
Miura is also still bringing his music roots R & B in some songs like "Body Kills" is fun and continued with the alternative song R & B "Darkroom" is sexy and passionate complete with hard rock riff to add a sensual impression. "Can not Stop Will not Stop Loving You" is a good crossbreeding between UK garage, deep house, R & B, disco and pop tastes brought by Michael Jackson in the "Thriller" and "Bad" era. The "Star" ballad number was delivered so deep with large synth inserts to dramatize the atmosphere.
Daichi Miura's sixth album contains twelve dance-pop and R & B songs that are very well performed and genius by Miura. He is able to modify contemporary pop music and customize it with music that he likes so it sounds unique and does not try to be a nobody.