BRADIO(ブラディオ) - YES Album Thoughts(J-Funk/Rock)

1 Funky Kitchen
2 スキャット・ビート
3 Sexy Lover
4 Boom! Boom! ヘブン
5 きっと遠く キミともっと遠く
6 Sparkling Night
7 Shout To The Top
8 きらめきDancin’
9 INAZUMAジャケット
10 Feel All Right
11 人生はSHOWTIME
12 LA PA PARADISE

  Yes is supposed to be Bradio's first major album. This confuses me a little bit. Especially when the band has had two other albums released prior to Yes. Maybe they mean that this the first album that will actually be rememberable outside of the album's singles. If so, then I would have to agree. I'll be the first to say that I don't really check for Bradio and the only thing that this band has given me is the wonderful song called Flyers, which was the opening theme song for an anime titled Death Parade. Most anime fans overseas know them for this insert song. Some folks might have checked out more music after this song like I did but many of their albums didn't measure up to Flyers in any type of way, in my opinion. Yes hits stores after Bradio has had moderate success in Japan(Their releases have at least broke into the top 20.) where not much is expected from a group like them. A big problem with their band is it's really easy for Bradio's music to fall dangerously close to coming across as "late night at the disco club in downtown Tokyo". The lead singer has an afro while the rest of the band is religious about looking like a cutout from an American magazine in the early sixties and seventies. They also aren't the first band to style themselves like this, Not to knock them for trying to stay true to the kind of artists they want to be, It's just been done before in a mediocre fashion. You defiantly see what the record label saw in them when they perform though. Earth Wind and Fire's legacy lives on in certain parts of their sound. Then there's a hint of originality that comes from them being themselves. Yes as an album corrects some of the issues I always believed that Bradio had musically. One thing was that their music sometimes sounded too outdated for a larger audience and they needed to find a healthy medium where they could stay true their old school sound on top of appealing to the masses. Yes's tracks are were produced to be geared more toward them getting more units sold. Bradio explores expanding their expertise a little bit. Funkadelic is still the main theme of Yes's inner most idea however, the band has now tapped into the ability to bring diverse layers to their music. For example, On one hand, the funky traits of their signature sound are  still there such as the horns, saxophones, and keyboards then on the other hand there's music that taps more into the rock N roll side of the band. I actually always felt that Flyers was the track that represented that middle place in funk and rock that Bradio was trying to reach. Too bad that song wasn't hugely popular in Japan….. The two albums before YES didn't have the same energy either. I could hear the new hunger to take their careers to the next level on this album. This hunger made their songs become more enjoyable on a catchier level that makes you literally hum their songs while you go about your everyday activities. It's super funny to me that Bradio is pretending to have amnesia like they didn't already have two major albums…… Or maybe someone combed that afro too damn hard. Y'all tried it and I love the album.

   Those vocals are defiantly on point. My ass would pay to see them in concert because they can sing them hard notes when they want to. There's a unique flexibility how their vocals can switch back and forth between being really groovy to rocking out with a blazing guitar.

  If Yes is promoted well, I could see this being their breakout album. The album's content is meant to be heard by a larger audience. I've become a bigger fan after listening to this album.