I personally believe that as their first concentrated effort like this, expectations should be tampered. I expect them to get better if they ever make another album, but they REALLY seem to hate it. Kizu seems to have interesting internals in general.
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The way I see it at this point like they have so many singles that could constitute as eligible for this album so it could end up being like Kataki, like we’ve all said already. And at that point, to me, it isn’t a “new” album at all. It’s also not a “first last” album because it’s not an album era it’s a compilation of singles.
They’re an incredible band with a lot of talent, so I am still really excited to see what it ends up being but if they keep this act up and then release a 12 song album with one new song on it that they’re delayed twice then I think they’re just not cut out for this kind of career, sorry.
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They’re in the same agency, but on different labels, with Kizu on an indie label. I’m not really knowledgeable about these nuances and I’m not sure how much they coordinate their release dates with the agency, but I also thought it was strange that their releases are on the same day.
I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but after a few interviews, I got the impression that they’re not planning to include older songs on the album, or at least that there will be more new ones than we expected.
I’m keeping my expectations tempered and wouldn’t end up surprised if it was all older singles - but having an album of legitimately fresh material can at least somewhat justify delays. And it would impress me so I’ll change my tune when we see what the track list looks like.
In 2028…
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Honestly lime for some reason seems to be lazy or have a lack of motivation based on his actions from this album.
Not trying to judge the man. No disrespect but there are so many other vkei composers who have made back to back albums with unique enough material yet lime seems to complain about a single album.
It makes me wonder. If lime doesn’t like making music/complains about it, then why does he do it in the first place? Why is he a composer in general?
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Moreover, I’m curious how much of the album is done.
Like, out of 13 songs there are allegedly 9 songs that have been released already. However, we still have no cover art, no complete tracklist… nothing, but the title.
Also, this post gets more and more hilarious in hindsight.
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kizu used to make 20 bangers in the same time frame it now takes them to make 1 or 2 new songs
Lime’s talked a lot in previous interviews about struggling with inspiration, frequently panicking he’s out of ideas (which got very after the first single), and how he’s been saved from writer’s block from random shit - like being severely depressed (precisely about not being able to write more songs iirc) and going out to eat where he heard a chef chop food at a rhythm that eventually worked its way into a single. Some other interviews of his have a frequently recurring theme of complaining about the idolification of modern vkei and a dig at ghost writing and copycat bands. Maybe things would have been different if he had more composers in the band to bounce ideas off (the other members help but he writes the rough drafts of all instruments) but overall it explains a lot about why he’s so non-prolific. His entire world view has repeated themes of quality over quantity.
Rather than laziness (he’s had a pretty active life, not an underachiever by any means) to me all signs point towards perfectionism biting him in the ass when he’s expected to deliver on schedule. From his Twitter comments it sounds like he severely resents creating enough content at once for an album, compared to the instant gratification of a single. I’ve been through a similar burnout (which made me drop art as a career path, creating on demand destroyed my self-esteem), which is why it sounds like I’m defending him a lot (but all we can do is connect the dots and speculate, none of us really know him but reading into things is fun!)
edit: WHEW i wrote a wall of text again, dammit
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I guess if you put it into that perspective in short he’s somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to making albums/music. If I’m understanding that correctly 
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That. I relate to Lime heavy in that regard.
Yah, I was thinking about that stuff earlier, and I was gonna point out that his lyrics always tends to have very similar themes. He genuinely seems extremely, extremely depressed and somewhat self-resentful. I worry for his health, TBH. Utsukushiki Hibiki, Hato, 0… Basically every Kizu song seems to be about self-pity or resentment for Japanese society, like Milk’s MV straight up blowing up the government. I genuinely don’t know how his career will end up at this rate. But I genuinely hope I’m analyzing it like a madman.
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It’s nice to know that they’re aware that people might be surprised/upset about the album being postponed again.
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Some of his interviews are very hopeful about how far he wants to take Kizu and how confident he is in bringing back originality in vkei (he genuinely seems into vkei for the love of the game, not for women, hell, he even has a diss track for fangirls in Tenchuu), but some are… yeah. All of us here would be into normal hobbies and Spotify-popular music if we were fully integrated in society, but here we are debating minutiae about bands halfway across the globe in a language most of us don’t fully understand.
I feel like the “enemies” in his lyrics are mostly external factors (most songs have a jab at society, the government, and anything resembling a “system”, including the fanservice system) so I feel like it’s a strong sense of self struggling in a system that puts expectations on you - to be a good citizen, to be warm and interactive with fans, etc. (And yes, Milk is such a crazy good song, how the anxiety builds up just by repeating the same riffs!)
I could see his career waning if he keeps up this low level of output as fans get sidetracked and I don’t see him getting back to just being a regular contributing member (like in Lezard) but I think this is more of a vkei problem than a metal problem, in metal without the “loyalty“ factor from fans you can have a non-music day job and put out legendary albums every few years.
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Damn, so the “last album” joke is maybe not even a joke 
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This is great to hear!
I’ve been really curious about JP:PARASITE.
From that preview we got from 周風 it sounds really good.
He says he is working hard on the album 
If you think about it, in the first three years they released about three singles per year, which is basically one album. Inspiration is not constant unfortunately, and with more popularity there are also more expectations and pressure.
I think making a full album is harder, especially for a band that doesn’t stick to one genre.
Many composers today rely on arrangement and production, and without that the composition can feel weak or fall apart. But that’s not the case for them, Lime said that if a song sounds good on guitar, it will sound even better with arrangement. But he also once said he doesn’t like composing music and enjoys writing lyrics much more.
He is songwriter, but I don’t want to underestimate the work of other members. Yue said that after working together on the arrangement, the songs can change a lot.
From an interview:
— How do you see the album?
At least I have already written the song that will be the final point of the album. Now I am writing songs that will lead to it, so the whole album moves in that direction. The question is whether I can make it the way I imagine. So right now I am working by trial and error.
— Is the fact that you can only write when you push yourself into a corner related to insecurity?
Yes, that’s right.
— Even though you say it is difficult, you have released many singles. You could even be called a productive songwriter.
Well… I guess so.
— Maybe this sounds a bit careless, but shouldn’t you take it more easily?
Do you remember the song “Jūsei”? It was a B-side of “Kuroi Ame”. I did not have time before the deadline, so I wrote it with just three chords. I did not really think about it, I just expressed what I felt at that moment.
— What if you try that approach again?
Then maybe I could write a song in a few hours. But after that I would start thinking, “Maybe I could make it better.” I still want to create something that surprises even myself.
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He said that things are good now and that he is even happy. I hope his degus live a long life, he seems very attached to them. It turns out he had a hamster before, and its death affected him a lot, it even inspired “JP:Parasite”.
From an interview:
When it died, I felt really sad. I wrote the song while remembering how energetic he was, imagining him running on his wheel.
— Is that why the song has such a restless, fast rhythm?
There is also a line like “You will conquer the world with your cuteness” — that is about him too. So with the feeling that “hamsters are really cute”, I wrote a song that contrasts this with human stupidity and ugliness.
It might sound funny, he talked about it a bit ironically. The song is serious and the lyrics are very good, so don’t think it’s literally about a hamster 
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……okay I’m hype again
FOR NOW
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