CD
CD + DVD
1) Be ZERO
2) Grand Chariot
3) Yoridokoro
4) Jealous
5) Futari no Onna
6) LAZY HOLIDAY
7) Jijitsu Ai Feat HY's Nakasone Izumi
8) Jama
9) Byoushin
10) THE MC
11) By Everyone
Originally supposed to get released on 12th Aug , Hilcrhyme's last studio album release was last Jan's self titled album .
THE MC includes 11 songs , 8 of the songs are new material .
The other 3 songs in THE MC are :
- Jijitsu Ai Feat HY's Nakasone Izumi ; 23rd single ; used to promote the drama Watashi Danna wo Share Shiteta
- Be ZERO ; opening theme song for the Netflix anime Mushiko no Kagasuter
- Futari no Onna (Jijitsu Ai's B-side)
THE MC lead promo track is Yoridokoro which was chosen to be used as the ending theme song for the Peter Grill to Kenja no Jikan anime .
TOKYO MX started airing Peter Grill to Kenja no Jikan from 10th July onwards & Yoridokoro was made available digitally on 12th June prior to THE MC's album release .
Other than Yoridokoro , 2 other album tracks also received promo tie in's too .
Track 2 Grand Chariot was chosen to be used as the ending theme song for the drama Oretachi wa Abunakunai ~ Cool ni Saboru Keijitachi .
Before THE MC was released , track 4 Jealous was released digitally on 26th Aug & it will be used as the ending theme song to promote CDTV Saturday for Oct .
Both Grand Chariot & Yoridokoro have videos made but they're not included in the DVD of THE MC .
I consider THE MC to be Hilcrhyme's 1st proper album release after the departure of DJ KATSU . As such their last Jan's self titled album release , I don't see it as a proper album given the way things were unlike now in THE MC .
THE MC overall is quite a nice surprise & it feels a lot more put together as compared to some of their past studio albums .
For THE MC , it feels more streamed lined . Even some of the album tracks which almost feels like borderline filler , they don't have that very big music inferior quality gap between the others who're a lot more memorable sounding .
Before listening to THE MC , I was a bit sceptical on how the album might be like especially since Jijitsu Ai is the only single included .
The album tracks I'm not so keen on are Jealous & Byoushin but the rest of the new material are pretty good and I can see why Yoridokoro was chosen to be THE MC's lead album promo track as it's 1 of the few songs in the album that's the closest that can be counted as a ballad , alongside with Jama .
And I think it's great to conclude THE MC with By Everyone . The album started out on a high upbeat note with Be ZERO and it's only fitting to wrap up THE MC with an equally on par uptempo number .
The release of THE MC proves that TOC is able to carry on Hilcrhyme's name in years to come & I look forward to their next music release , like now .