Album Review
Title:  Beautiful World
Artist:  Psycho le Cemu
Release date:  November 10, 2004
www.psycholecemu.jp

    Psycho le Cemu gives us some beautiful music with its second major album, Beautiful World. The album kicks right into high gear with the fast and apocalyptical "NEO" and keeps the energy going through the dawn of "Michi no Sora," before segueing into the softer and very oriental-sounding "omoide aruki."
    The band takes fans along with them as they traverse a transcontinental railroad of sounds and emotions. The album is chock full of fast and hard tunes such as the rap-sung "one day" and "Scream," a song that commands the listener in harsh tones to get up and headbang. Sprinkled amidst this axe-grinding landscape are a brightly colored bunch of foot-tapping tunes such as "Twinkle package" and "UNIVERSE," which break through like the sun on a cloudy day. Thrown in for some country fun are "Kanojo to Furudokei" and a Gekiai-ish sounding "Yumekazaguruma." There's even a ballad, "Inori," full of piano tracks and a soulful refrain.
    Beautiful World treats each track like a separate planet with its own atmosphere and biology of music. With it, Psycho le Cemu has given fans a galaxy of an album with more variety than previous releases and a bit of bio-engineering experimentation we hope to see in future works.