It’s a shame that the inclusion of said songs weren’t handled well enough, disrupting the overall flow of the album. It’s almost eerie how the song reminds me so much with Coldplay’s “X Marks The Spot”, the hidden track of “A Head Full of Dreams” (on the topic of hidden tracks, there’s also one in “Butterflies”. That sound was successfully explored further in “You were here”, a haunting track where the band stripped all excessive instruments, leaving a single guitar strum and a thumping heartbeat. Most of the album’s better tracks are Bump of Chicken’s trademark slow rock ballads such as “Colony” and “Ryuusei Gun”. doesn’t fully abandon their slow roots in “Butterflies”, though. Both are brave efforts that are quite easy on the ears, but ultimately fail to make a lasting impression. “Butterflies” were decorated with all sorts of electronic sounds that are most apparent in the dancey “Butterfly” or the autotune-fueled “Colony”. Bump of Chicken’s effort to tap into the genre starts subtly with 2014’s “RAY”, but they never went all out until this 8th album. In the realms of mainstream bands, Sekai no Owari’s 2014 hit “Dragon Night” may be the prime example of the phenomena. In recent years, EDM sounds were quite prominent in the mainstream Japanese music scene (as usual, Japan is a bit lagging in terms of music trends).
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