Hopefully Ochita will be available at regular retailers eventually. Wish they’d be a bit more clear about what’s going on with that.
Got my order in for Oboro. Yesasia doesn’t ship to the UK anymore due to COVID-19, so I had to go with cdjapan instead.
Still waiting for Amazon JP, otherwise I’ll use Tower if the link isn’t up by tomorrow.
I know Dir en grey have some short previews, but damn was that one short.
Amazon JP is shady, they hide the shopping page for this single behind geo-block, but I managed to bypass anyway lmao 
Maybe there is ooga booga guttural after that part again, and they don’t wanna spoil them
From kyotaku // 2021.02.16 2nd session of Meguro Rock-May-KanGIG... :
Kyo: I don’t have any big message. But please wait a bit more for the new single. It will be like Taiyou no Ao 2.0, in a good way. …or Taiyou no Ao remix.
Call me confused. 
So we’re expecting schoolgirls chatting over it while having a beach party? Awesome.
Don’t forget that Midi ringtone in the background. 
You’re thinking of the Myaku remix!
Bizarrely, several remixes from that era had random people just talking in the background. I have no idea why.
I went there! Shinya is the only person we can trust.
Kyo : Taiyou no ao remix
Kaoru : Myaku remix
Shinya : Oboro is Oboro.
that is it luvs. she has officially reached the mid life crisis
From the same interview, regarding JEALOUS:
F: any songs that stood out?
K: I guess Jealous
F: in what way?
K: the arrangement was too old, it’s actually embarrassing (how bad it is), the lyrics too. I changed the lyrics, I was laughing internally at myself, but I couldn’t change the arrangement. it was like hell.
He also complained that some parts were too high, they were hard to sing. Some parts changed the piano intro done by Takumi etc, he didn’t want to listen to the CD, old version, because it was too embarrassing.
F: and it became a 2021 version?
K: I want to change it even more, make it less troublesome for me.
D: it wasn’t hard for me, but it is old, so the song’s speed doesn’t match my body anymore (not too fast, just wrong speed), it was easy to play though.
K: but it was hard to know how to move during the song.
Kyo then showed us a movement he got unhappy with
K: So I moved as little as possible
F: it didn’t look like you had this much trouble
K: I’m a pro in the end.
I have a feeling a lot of us will not like what they have done to it tbh
I absolutely hate Takumi’s current abortion of a synthesizer, and it’s like they are either oblivious to how cheap and dated it sounds, or they just stopped caring about their sound at all
It’s funny that they’re so embarrassed by it. I prefer it as a song to anything on MISSA. -Reverse- version is my favourite, though. They play that on the SUSTAIN THE UNTRUTH DVD (iirc the performance is awesome).
I’m very curious what he means by “old rirics bad” because literally every deg remake that features new verses was a downgrade in terms of flow, with a lot of them falling into variations of foocha-foocha croaking with random oversung falsettos no one asked for stacked on top
Probably that’s what Kyo means.
my point is he hasn’t evolved into a sophisticated poetical philosopher on neither the remakes, nor their latest album songs either, not to mention the often outright senile live takes.
He’s done it. He’s kyopera’d himself too close to the sun and now he is facing the consequences.
This has been a long standing problem for me. I’m not buying that even half of the vocal styles shoehorned into the remakes are what “comes naturally”. The IIID Empire in particular.