Bam's Music Reviews: Hawaii: Part II (ミラクルミュージカル, 2012)
I'm Bam. I like possums, I like music! Let's get into it~ Hawaii: Part II is an indie pop album released by Joe Hawley under the project ミラクルミュージカル (Miracle Musical) on December 12th, 2012 independently through Bandcamp. Described by Hawley as a "Genre of infinity, which is expressed through hologram", the album features all but one of the band members from Tally Hall and is partially derived from demos accumulated from as early as 2005, leading some people to consider it the unofficial third Tally Hall album. I first ran into this album several years ago, circa 2014 or 2015, and remember liking it a decent bit for its more out-there sound and songs compared to what I had been familiar with at the time, although I really didn't listen to the thing in its full after the first couple times. Now, nearly a decade later, and after taking a much deeper dive into musical analysis over the years, have my thoughts on it changed? Only one way to find out! Without further ad...