This album has showed the pillows' sound turning more melodic while still keeping a firm grasp on their frantic and heavy but calculated sound.

For those who haven't heard these guys, they're obviously influenced by the modern/alt. rock of the '80s and '90s.

However, they're definitely not wannabes, they have a very distinctive and enjoyable sound which by all rights should be popular here in the U.S., as it's far superior to a lot of the trash that gets spilled on the public all the time over here.

The language barrier isn't even an excuse since many of their lyrics are in english and since when did lyrics matter much to the american public much anyway?

Please, OH Please!!! Hear Me out. To anyone considering purchasing this album please do, this is an excellent album. If you are a Pillows fan and have acquired their music off the web, buy this album to show your support. I have and will buy thier other albums as they are released. I love this band and I am major fanboy and I want The Pillows to have all the respect and success they deserve.

I love listening to this cd. I got it for my husband for x-mas but I can't stop listening to it long enough for him to get a chance. If you are considering buying anything by The Pillows, DO IT NOW! You will not be disapointed.

I saw FLCL and loved the music. It's so different from anything you hear in America. Don't try to fit it into one genre, because if you do you'll end up in a great pit of confuzzlement. The style is a LOT different from the older songs that enhanced FLCL so much, like Instant Music and Blues Drive Monster and I Think I Can, but not different in a bad way.

Dead Stock Paradise 2/5 Not their best song ...

Thumbs up! Though I hate to think this, some people won't like it as much because most pillows fans started out with FLCL (at least the american ones) and these songs are alot different than the FLCL songs. Personally, I like alot of them, but the songs like "Mole Town Prisoner" and "Moon Marguerite" ware out thin pretty easily.