I just noticed today on Toshl's official website there is an upcoming cover album to be released on 2018.11.28, called 'IM A SINGER' (misspelling included). Since I didn't seem to find any topic on this, here it goes:
https://www.universal-music.co.jp/toshl/products/tyct-60124/ Edited: It will contain the 10 following songs, and we got some preview studio recordings on YouTube, to start getting a taste of what is coming.
1. 手紙 ~拝啓 十五の君へ(作詞・作曲:アンジェラ・アキ オリジナル:アンジェラ・アキ[2008]) (
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2. 365日の紙飛行機(作詞:秋元康 作曲:角野寿和、青葉紘季? オリジナル:AKB48[2015]) (
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3. チキンライス(作詞:松本人志 作曲:槇原敬之 オリジナル:浜田雅功と槇原敬之[2004]) (
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4. 糸(作詞・作曲:中島みゆき オリジナル:中島みゆき[1998]) (
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5. 赤いスイートピー(作詞:松本隆 作曲:呉田軽穂 オリジナル:松田聖子[1982]) (
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6. 道(作詞:SHOGO KASHIDA 作曲:MIWA FURUSE オリジナル:EXILE[2007]) (
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7. ひこうき雲(作詞・作曲:荒井由実 オリジナル:荒井由実[1973]) (
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8. Everything(作詞:MISIA 作曲:松本俊明 オリジナル:MISIA[2000])
9. I LOVE YOU(作詞・作曲:尾崎豊 オリジナル:尾崎豊[1983])
10. 幸せのちから(作詞・作曲:M.Y オリジナル:和田アキ子[2008]) (
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(transcribed below)
1. Angela Aki - Tegami ~Haikei juugou no kimi e~
2. AKB48 - 365 nichi no kami hikouki
3. Masatoshi Hamada & Noriyuki Makihara - Chicken rice
4. Miyuki Nakajima - Ito
5. Seiko Matsuda - Akai sweet pea
6. EXILE - Michi
7. Yumi Arai - Hikouki gumo
8. MISIA - Everything
9. Yutaka Ozaki - I LOVE YOU
10. Akiko Wada - Shiawase no chikara
Here's a 30 second commercial for the album:
So that's something for me to be excited about, since there is no X album yet on sight any time soon. I already know some of these songs and will research the few unknown songs in preparation for the release.
This album will definitely have a different sound than usual (as much as I like and want to support Toshl, I can't help but feel all the recent Toshl era songs sound very much the same).
So what do you guys think?