Lillix: Tigerlily (Japan Version) Album Review

 Today's will be of "Lillix's" third, and most recent album, "Tigerlily".  After "Louise" and "Alicia" left the band the Evin sisters, "Lacey-Lee" and "Tasha-Ray" would start recording a third album in 2008.  They would later get new members "Brit Black" (who would leave after releasing one new song with the group), "Eric Hoodicoff", "Cameron Brass", "Scott Thompson" (who would also quit the band but co-wrote one of the songs on the album), and "Alex Varon".  In 2010 they finally released their third album, "Tigerlily" which was the band's original name.  Here's my track by track review:

 1) Dreamland: The third and final single from the album.  The video showed "Tasha-Ray" and "Lacey-Lee" sent to a computerized world in search of a tigerlily as well as performing the song.  They later find one on an amp and one on top of a keyboard.  The video is great, but the song is boring.  6/10

 2) Believer: This song seems to start off being afraid of being alone and wondering where someone you were hoping to see isn't around until the third verse where but it seems by the third verse the person has gotten over that fear.  I'm likely wrong but that's what I get from the lyrics.  Great song though.  10/10

 3) Nowhere to Run: The first single from the album.  A demo of the song had leaked onto youtube a year before it was released.  The video showed "Tasha-Ray" and "Lacey-Lee" being chased by the cops and they manage to avoid them each time until the end of the video where the girls are performing the song and they arrested after the song is finished.  The song is my favorite song on the album and I was thrilled when the video was released because I had been listening to the demo on youtube for a year waiting for it to be released.  It was worth the wait!  10/10

 4) Say No More: This song is a beautiful ballad about a friend who to be going through a rough time and while you don't know what's going through their mind and they don't want to tell the the specifics, you still have their back.  I love the song and wish it was a single.  10/10

 5) Through the Night: I love the intro and the music in the chorus on this song.  It reminds me of "Castle of Illusion Staring Mickey Mouse", the 1990 version the Sega-Genesis.  The song seems to be about standing your ground and not listening to what people are telling you what to do.  It was going to have a video but it was scrapped in favor of a video for another song.  10/10

 6) Dance Alone: This song was released as a promo single in 2009.  It's also the only song on the album that was recorded with "Brit Black".  The song seems to be about wanting a guy to come over to the girl who getting tired of waiting.  It's rumored that the song was supposed to be on "Inside the Hollow".  Not sure if that's true or not but it does have seem like it would fit on that album.  Either way it's a good song.  9/10

 7) 7 Days: The song seems to be not wanting to return home because your boyfriend cheated on you with a girl that he told you he hated.  Well, he lied but the narrator sings "no choice to move on, at least I got a new song."  Love that it ends on a positive note, but it's not one of my favorites.  7/10

 8) Back Up Girl: The second single from the album.  The song talks about how a guy that you liked didn't want to be with you because he liked someone else.  We've all been there.  IT SUCKS!  The video shows "Lacey-Lee" and "Tasha-Ray" driving around and singing at a party.  It has nothing to do with the song at all but at least it had a video.  A remixed version of the song appears as a bonus track on the U.S. version of the album.  It's a great song.  10/10

 9) This Is Goodbye: This is probably the angriest song.  The song is about a guy who you considered a friend, but overtime you realized he was playing you for a fool the whole time.  It would probably be a great song if the music wasn't so distracting.  7/10

 The next three songs are only available on the Japanese Version of the album.

10) It's About Time (Remix): Yes, they re-recorded and remixed their very first single.  The original version is pop/rock while the remixed version on this album is pop/trance.  Also "Lacey-Lee" sings the first verse that "Louise" originally sang.  The song is good but the not as good as the original version.  8/10

11) The Outlaw (Introduction): It's an intro into the next song.  It's a great instrumental but it's too short so I can't give it a score.

12) The Outlaw: I don't listen to this song that much, not because I hate it but because it is difficult to find online.  It's a pretty good song and it should've been included on the standard version of the album.  The guitar solos remind me a little of the music in "Sonic Adventure 2".  9/10

 Sadly the album was as successful as it should've been.  While the singles were played on radio and the videos were in heavy rotation, none of them charted.  It makes no sense since "Nowhere to Run" and "Back Up Girl" were great, "Dreamland" had a great video bu the song isn't that good compared to all the other songs on the album.  Even though they haven't released an album in 7 years, the band is still together and will hopefully release another album in the future.  My favorite songs are: "Nowhere to Run", "Through the Night", "Say No More", "Believer", and "Back Up Girl".  Out of 110 points (because "The Outlaw (Introduction) doesn't get a score) I give the album 96 points which is 87%, a B+.

 Thank you for reading this review and if you haven't check out "Lillix's" music because they're an amazing band.