CRYSTAL HEART IN THE FOUNTAIN

This album has two drawbacks. First of all, it's only 71 minutes long. There's no real reason it needs to be two discs long. Second of all, like a lot of discs that push the 80 minute limit, there seems to be a lot of filler.

Other than that, the band builds on their strengths. They've added a full-time keyboard player (Masahiro Takeuchi) and Junko Sera (née Nakagawa)'s voice just keeps getting better. It all comes together on the 21-minute, three-part suite that takes up the entirety of Disc One, some of the band's most powerful and exciting music.