Cover for all 3 versions (CD , CD + T-shirt & Analog)
1) My New Love
2) Hei, Hashiru
3) WOLF
4) Deus
5) Majestic
6) MR. ARMOUR
7) Da La Da Da
8) Koi Karasu
9) Rain & Dream
10) Ore yo Karma wo Ikiro
11) Golden Rookie
12) SICK
13) Towa ni Wakaku
B'z's last studio album release was 2017's DINOSAUR .
All songs in NEW LOVE were written by vocalist Inaba Koshi while all songs were composed by guitarist Matsumoto Tak .
HINOTORI is excluded from NEW LOVE .
No singles are included in NEW LOVE but the following songs received different promo tie in's prior to the announcement of the new album :
- Majestic ; used in the ads of Pocky
- WOLF ; used to promote the Japanese remake of the drama Suits
- Hei, Hashiru ; used in the ads of Lipovitan D
- Deus ; used in the ads of Suzuki's Escudo car range
Top musicians participated in the album recording including Stone Temple Pilots' Robert DeLeo , Aerosmith's Joe Perry and supporting band members of the current ongoing B'z LIVE-GYM 2019 -Whole Lotta NEW LOVE- .
In Rain & Dream , Aerosmith's guitarist Joe Perry participated in the recording of the song .
B'z made videos recorded in the studio for Hei, Hashiru , WOLF & Majestic . These 3 clips are uploaded on their YouTube account .
Now in the 31st year of their career , B'z begins the new era with NEW LOVE ! The legendary rock duo's latest album features 4 tie in songs including Suits theme song Wolf , Lipovitan D Japan Rugby support song Hei , Hashiru & the CM songs Majestic and Deus .
This's going to be a bit different in the way I write album reviews so unlike other album reviews I wrote in the past , for B'z's latest album offering , I'm going to write in a summary of sorts .
For NEW LOVE , I decided to take a different approach as no singles are included in the new album & I was deciding how I should go about writing it .
For starters , NEW LOVE is 1 of B'z harder albums to get into . I started listening from their 17th album MAGIC & out of the ones I've listened to , NEW LOVE takes a different music approach as compared to B'z past albums .
I don't know if that's a good or bad thing but the 3 songs in NEW LOVE that I felt are borderline filler tracks are Deus , Koi Karasu & Ore yo Karma wo Ikiro as these are the hardest songs for me to remember .
Also I would have loved to see more ballads in NEW LOVE . I like Majestic a lot & it's a shame this's the only slow song in the album .
Normally B'z opening album tracks are quite catchy but this time round that oddly doesn't apply to My New Love . It would have been better if Hei, Hashiru was put as the 1st song in the tracklist .
Other than that , the rest of NEW LOVE is pretty good & quite typical B'z . Rain & Dream is possibly my favourite out of the new material . It's also the longest track in the album but when you have someone like Aerosmith's Joe Perry who plays such a great spellbinding long guitar solo , the time duration is secondary .
It's risky for artistes to release albums that have no singles but for B'z , I guess the risk was quite worth it to some extent . After all they've been in the business for more than 3 decades so they know what works & doesn't work in their favour .