Following a relatively lean period for her popularity throughout the early 2000s, Namie Amuro continues her recent revival with Past < Future.
Like all her recent material, the album remains firmly in the R&B groove that she has appropriated as her own over the past few years.
Despite expanding her stable of songwriters and producers compared to her previous album, Play, there is nevertheless an air of sameness to Past < Future.
On the plus side, however, that means that it eschews the slew of dreary ballads that tend to infect Japanese R&B albums, with only "My Love" and "The Meaning of Us" really allowing the tempo to dip noticeably below the tedium threshold, and even then only toward the end, as the album eases to a close.
Elsewhere, opening track "Fast Car," produced by Swedish team Dsign Music, gets things off to a promising start, and "Steal My Night" is another highlight.
Overall, Past < Future is a hard album to fault, and fans of the more mainstream end of Japanese R&B pop will find few more effective practitioners than Namie Amuro right now.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fast car. | Namie Amuro | Play | 03:19 | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| 2 | Copy that | Namie Amuro | Play | 04:24 | 10 MB | 33 MB |
| 3 | Love game | Namie Amuro | Play | 03:38 | 8 MB | 27 MB |
| 4 | Bad Habit | Namie Amuro | Play | 03:09 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 5 | Steal my night | Namie Amuro | Play | 03:31 | 8 MB | 26 MB |
| 6 | First time feat. DOBERMAN INC | Namie Amuro | Play | 05:23 | 12 MB | 41 MB |
| 7 | Wild. | Namie Amuro | Play | 03:18 | 7 MB | 25 MB |
| 8 | Dr. | Namie Amuro | Play | 05:38 | 12 MB | 37 MB |
| 9 | Shut up | Namie Amuro | Play | 04:07 | 9 MB | 29 MB |
| 10 | My love | Namie Amuro | Play | 04:03 | 9 MB | 30 MB |
| 11 | The meaning of us | Namie Amuro | Play | 04:27 | 10 MB | 28 MB |
| 12 | Defend love | Namie Amuro | Play | 04:03 | 9 MB | 28 MB |
| 49 mins | 112 MB | |||||
| 49 mins | 356 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namie Amuro | Primary Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |