Look, if a former Especia member does something musically, this blog will almost certainly cover it. If parts of this HALLCA release lean in on nostalgia for Especia, Monari Wakita’s solo career has been an effort to take similar ideas and turn them into livelier numbers that seem to be a bit more focused on…
This blog is never going to be completely over the end of Especia, even if by their final formation they were basically an entirely different group (albeit with at least a few solid numbers). While we eternally pour one out for the project responsible for idol masterpiece Gusto though, let’s not nostalgia for…uhhhh, 2013 obscure…
Time moves so fast, that it already feels like Especia’s “Midnight Confusion” was eons ago. And in the years since, the group’s ability to find the perfect balance between retro kitsch and contemporary curios only feels more ahead of its time — like, the whole first half of this year was spent focusing on bands…