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☼ Aqua Dive Album Details ☾
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About the Album
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Aqua Dive is the debut studio album of musical duo CIEL, blending together dream pop, R&B, indie, EDM and London dubstep influences on top of its Wong Kar Wai intertextuality. Simply put, it is an album chronicling the early stages of a new relationship: from the initial hesitance in chance encounter to the drunkenness in flickers of light to the questioning phase in hitman. Aqua Dive begins with the instrumental chance encounter featuring an understated and halting melody. Next is title track love dive, continuing the dark yet bright atmosphere of the album. With its heavier synth line in the bass, it offers a bright but still grounded outlook to this rapidly developing relationship. love dive is followed by shivers of sunlight, another modern yet nostalgic dance track. flickers of light is next in the album, featuring a crisp percussive groove. A nod to Cop 663 from Chungking Express, 663 retains much of the movie's romantic dreaminess as the relationship settles in. If the first half of the album represented the dawn of a new relationship, then 663 is when it enters its dusk. With its hypnotizing and dizzying beat, EDM and dubstep influences start becoming more apparent in the next track 镜花水月. Followed by 镜花水月 is Aqua Dive's other title track aqua blue. Similar to love dive, it continues the theme of love as a journey to dive into; however, this time in a darker and more sinister way with its sleeker production. Finally, Aqua Dive ends with instrumental outro hitman, another ode to Wong Kar Wai. Like the hitman in Fallen Angels, perhaps the relationship was doomed to die from the beginning.

Tracklist
chance encounter
love dive
shivers of sunlight
flickers of light
663
镜花水月
aqua blue
hitman
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also includes: 1 lyric book and 1 mv/teaser filming behind photobook
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[badcrookshanks]

the artwork is amazing