♪ Title: Desert Years ♪ Circle: ShibayanRecords ♪ Album: RETRO FUTURE GIRLS (C85) ♪ Arrange: Shibayan ♪ Vocal: Yana ♪ Original: デザイアドライブ (Desire Drive)

♪ Image: http://tinypic.com/r/10x5anp/5

It's no secret that Desire Drive is high up on my list of favorite tracks, but wow. Holy smokes. It might be a little pre-emptive to say, but this arrange really blows the competition out of the water.

Shibayan's instrumentation is stellar as always, but Yana really takes it to a whole new level. It's stunning that she can continuously hit those absurdly high notes (e.g. 7:24) without straining her voice. Just hearing her rock those notes up and down several octaves is, strangely, a pleasure in and of itself.

Well, I might just be preaching to the choir at this point. if you're aware of a certain popular arrange named 'Fall in the Dark' from Shibayan's Magico Catastrofe album, then you'll already know that Yana is a very talented vocalist.

It's a bit of a shame that she isn't very heavily involved with the Touhou/doujin scene. I believe as of writing this, Shibayan is the only one who brings her in for vocal work at all, and that's only at one song per album. Is it too much to hope for more?

Anyway, I hope this album was as much of a blast to you as it was for me. It's certainly been a fun ride. Enjoy!