[1982] Bread & Butter (ブレッド&バター) - Night Angel (Full Album)

Tracklist: 1. You're Are My Angel [0:00] 2. True Love [3:31] 3. Return My Baby [6:36] 4. I Love You [10:48] 5. Special Partner [14:04] 6. Here I Am Again [17:42] 7. I Believe [21:52] 8. Dancing In The Night [26:08] 9. Ballad [30:04] Arranged by: Haru Maruya & Jerry Hey (01) Masaki Matsubara (02 ~ 03, 05 ~ 07, 09) Jimmie Haskell (04, 08 ~ 09) Jay Winding (08) CD purchased by me, ripped/scanned by squidlin When I had previously uploaded Bread & Butter's "Fine Line" album onto my channel, I mentioned that it was one out of two albums that the duo released under the TDK Records label. Ironically enough, despite now owning a (digital) copy of it for almost a full month now, I completely forgot I even had this album on me until last week, so I quickly scrambled to put this upload together to put on YT LOL What do I think of it? It kinda saddens me that I have to say this (and I'll explain why in a bit) but honestly I wasn't too fond of this album either. I checked the arrangement credits before I listened to the album and I saw that Masaki Matsubara was the main arranger for most of this album's tracks. Just as an FYI, Masaki Matsubara had also arranged the majority of tracks on both "Monday Morning" and "Pacific"—two albums that Bread & Butter released under Alfa Records before signing on with TDK Records. Having listened to those albums, I was expecting "Night Angel" to sound just as good but in the end, the album didn't fulfill those wishes of mine. As far as arrangement goes, these sound just fine, but the compositions of these tracks didn't really hit me the same way as some of their other albums have. Consequently, after my first listen, this wasn't an album that I felt would have left a long-lasting effect on my memory. If I had to choose at least one track I did like though, I think it'd probably be "Dancing In The Night". (One of the few tracks that Matsubara didn't even arrange, funny enough) Anyways, enjoy.