This is the second album released by AA=, Takeshi Ueda's solo project after the disbanding of The Mad Capsule Markets. It is a stylistic continuation of the heavily electronic punk featured on the first album, but with the lyrics moving away from the more environmentally conscious themes present on #1. This is the last AA= album I have that directly credits Takayoshi Shirakawa as a vocalist: #3 merely credits him as a "team member" separately from the rest of the band, despite his vocals still being present on some tracks.
The tracklisting is as follows:
1. prologue {2+2=4}
3. INDUSTRIAL
4. BASS JUNKEES
5. GREED...
6. meVIR
7. BPMaster
9. TEKNOT
10. F
11. FREEZE
12. epilogue {sonata no.8}
There isn't much else to say here that wasn't covered in my entry for #1 regarding packaging. As you can see, it's the same kind of eco-tray pushing the disc against the tray by a thick tab that's a little bit of a pain to lift up. This time, the liner notes fold out to be a poster with the lyrics on the other side of the paper. Allow me to get on my soapbox a little on this, though: I really hate when this happens. It isn't as bad in this case as jewel cased ones, where the album art itself is a piece of this poster, but it just makes you wish it could've been an additional insert so you could pin it up on the wall without losing any information. /rant
As for my recommendation, if you liked the sound of #1, you'll like this as well. That's about it, really.
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