Showing posts with label Dark Circle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dark Circle. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 March 2018

CocoSori Mini Album Vol.2 Mi Amor - Album Review

One of my favourite K-Pop groups CocoSori brought out an exciting new single recently and now it's time for a review of the mini album that was released for the single. The title of album is Mini Album Vol.2 - Mi Amor and was released in Feburary 2018.

Mi Amor Front Cover

The album only comes in one version and the single was funded through the crowd funding website Kickstarter. There was quite a few tiers you could support starting from 3000JPY (about $36AUD) which is pricer than most basic tiers in other Kickstarters I have seen. There was even tiers for 300,000JPY (a crazy $3669AUD!!) which included the latex outfit from one of the girls from their Dark Circle song. I didn't support the Kickstarter myself, but it achieved a total of over 2 million JPY which is amazing!

The Mi Amor album is about the size of a standard DVD case but not as wide. I like this size of K-Pop albums as they are easy to store and give the appearance of a book which I quite like. The Mini Album includes the following contents:
  • CD- 6 Track Album
  • Photobook - 20 Pages
  • Photo Postcard - Random from 2 designs.

Interior of album with photo postcard.

The design of the album has a beautiful red and white aethestic to it to fit in with the latin feel of the Mi Amor song. The album is quite sturdy which I always appreciate and the CD sits in a proper CD holder unlike most K-Pop albums which just have the CD stuck on a felt circle thing. It is better for international shipping as well as it helps hold the CD in place during shipment. There's nothing worse than receiving a package to find the CD has been rolling around in the album the whole time.

Mi Amor - Back Cover.

Mi Amor - CD Case.

The photo book is gorgeous! Even though it's only 20 pages, there are some stunning photos inside and the photo book is well presented. The lyrics are included for all the songs on the album and the lyrics are written in both Korean and Japanese. I like how the girls cater to their Japanese fan base as well as their Korean one. I feel they could be incredibly successful in Japan if they focused on it and released songs like Orange Caramel's Japanese tracks. A list of thank yous and production notes are also included. Here are some photos of most of the pages in the photo book.