A Very Odd Duck Indeed
Curmudgeon | West Australia | 11/09/2001
(3 out of 5 stars)
"(...) Personally, I find it very disappointing after FPM's previous album, "Luxury". "Beautiful" harnesses saccharine strings, anonymous vocals and odd rhythmic structures to generally poor melodies, resulting in music that twitches constantly without really engaging the listener; several of the tracks sound more like experiments with software than songs. The lyrics are generally silly and nonsensical without being funny or witty. As someone who usually enjoys what could be termed JapPop I find "Beautiful" an ambitious but unsatisfying addition to the canon."