1) Collapsing
2) STORY
3) Diminish
4) Kyohan
5) SCREAM
6) Silly
7) All Through The Night
8) Kyoso Natsu
9) Monolith
10) My Love
This's AKi's 1st full length album since the release of his 2015 / debut solo album ARISE .
Collapsed Land includes AKi's debut physical single release STORY , 3 digital released songs & 1 B-side .
Prior to the release of Collapsed Land , these 3 songs were released digitally :
- Monolith
- SCREAM
- Collapsing
All Through The Night was originally included as the 2nd B-side in Monolith .
Track 4 Kyohan has vocal chorus contributed by LUNA SEA's vocalist Kawamura Ryuichi .
It's hard to believe it has been so long since AKi last put out a full length album but that's not to say he has been absent after releasing ARISE as in between , he released his 1st mini album EPHEMERAL in the same year as ARISE alongside with concert video releases & singles , be it physical or digital .
New material wise , the only new song in Collapsed Land I'm not a fan of is Silly but the other 4 new songs are pretty good .
I thought it's real cool for LUNA SEA's Ryuichi to guest sing together with AKi in Kyohan while something about Diminish is quite spellbinding in a good way .
Kyoso Natsu is a fun peppy upbeat song while My Love is the closest I associate it being a ballad in Collapsed Land .
I only wish that AKi included more slower songs / ballads in Collapsed Land as he sounds great doing both .
Other than that , I thought Collapsed Land is overall a pretty good follow up to ARISE . I still remembered when I 1st heard AKi sing & let alone for him to be the 1st member from SID to go solo , I was really surprised as before that , I thought only vocalist Mao has vocal chops to speak of in SID but guess not .
Here's hoping I wouldn't need to wait another 5 more years for a new AKi solo album release .