ANN published an article. According to it, it's a dual song collection, but an associated bonus disc actually contains at least one new song! (Plus the full ZUM.) So there's still some new stuff here.

And Inu Curry... this is amazing.

Also lol Utena-as-car reimagined as Utena-as-horse. Actually, car-as-horse sounds like a good way to explain the utena-as-car in the first place.

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The new song's seems like the biggest highlight music wise, but Inu Curry is one of my favorite art teams working in the field today, and I would love to have a closer look at the cover.

The writer of that article evidently did enough research to spell Arsenothelis right and I respect that, but--and this is good news--it's actually not a compilation of the duel songs. Diskunion has the full tracklist and all of them are new except for ZUM (please note that some are instrumental tracks). For instance, the title of track 12 is My_real_me_is_scattered (written just like that); that's definitely not a song from the show.
(Oh, and only one of the bonus tracks is new, but they're all the original versions performed by Seazer himself, if I didn't misunderstand--however, they're only available for a limited time, first-come-first-serve).

Also, the Banyu Inryoku twitter (I think it was them, might have been diskunion) was talking about how it will be the first original work that Seazer has recorded since SKU OST7 (appart from the v short intro tracks on the live albums I guess).
ANN might have gotten it confused with the previous two Utena cds released, (Watashi Kakumei Phalsaria? I can never spell the title), which were just duel song compilations.

I just realized that Utena's a centaur in the cover. The album's been announced for almost a month, and I just noticed it.

It's here! That artwork is just so gorgeous, I can't get over it! But what's important is the music, maaaan-- and that definitely delivers. Mixed with a few eerie-sounding, robotic, industrial bloops and beats there's an unmistakable Utena-ness. I can absolutely imagine many of these tracks as unreleased duel songs.

The second CD is the bonus content, which doesn't come in a full case but just a thin little slipcase, which will make me nervous and I'll end up finding an empty case for it probably, but that's a minor complaint!

Well shit, this looks like it rules. OST7 is actually probably my favorite one for actually listening to repeatedly. It has way more mileage than the others.

Why this gotta keep happening when I'm broke...

DorianGray345 wrote:

That's awesome, dollface! I finally caved and bought a copy from CDJapan, and cannot wait for it to arrive.

Which tracks are your favorites thus far?

I haven't really listened enough for a favorite to be set in stone, but I found the first track ヴィマル宮殿� �生�  摩天楼8823(instrumental) to be bizarrely eerie and it caught my attention-- and no track lost it, really! Immediately following that, the second track � 書目録―天使幻覚《婬鬼論》篇― struck me as much closer to a traditional duel-chorus, but still with an eerie quality to it. Loved that! The sixth track 異邦人� �� �� 歌(エトランジェ� �ララ� イ) will definitely rank highly too; intense but with a less apocalyptic sound than surrounding songs, it sort of breaks up the bombastic tone similarly to Missing Link's use in the show. The bulk of the album really does have a duel-chorus type of feeling to it, but by no means does that mean they're all identical-- I'll just have to dedicate more free time to really comparing and picking favorites. Very indecisive here! I'd love to hear what your impressions are, too!

I do have to give special mention to 修� �生殖・� �り・肉体黙示録 for a silly reason-- the auto-translation has been updated and as of the time of posting reads "Sorrow Reproductive Natural Apocalypse" but when I first looked up the translations, Google hilariously auto-translated it as "Nuns Reproductive Becoming Apocalypse" which is just the best name. On that note, if anyone is able to provide a more accurate translation of the Japanese titles, I would be eternally grateful!

Giovanna wrote:

CRAP. Looks like CDJapan doesn't have the bonus disc one anymore?

Dollface, could you possibly do me a Christ-like favor and rip that as FLACs or something? This is what I get for disappearing. I'm gonna try to get the regular CD but it looks like the bonus disc isn't going to be available at all anymore?

Your wish is my command! Er, well, hopefully it will be-- you'll have to let me know if that works, I had to follow a guide on ripping to FLAC.

Ordered, bitches. I also grabbed those two remaster CDs that came out last year. I'll get scans and such out to you folks ASAP.

I'm not sure actually. I'm curious what HD sound quality is going to be since I never thought there was anything wrong with the soundtracks.

Sorry for the delay on this, but if anyone is interested I went ahead and ripped the full 14-track album in FLAC format too!

Here's the .rar download!

Welp, this album fucking owns.

Do we have translations for the song titles or names or anything anywhere?