Umu: What is up My Days? My name is Umu and I'm ReacttotheK's channel creator
Henry: What's up everybody? It's Henry from classical musicians react
Umu: Helcome to Henry's and my first listen to Day6 Even of Day's album
Gluon...?
Nothing can tear us apart
Because m- there's glue on like you're gluing it on...
Unless it's an actual word...I don't know, okay
Anyways, yes, welcome to our reaction, we are going to be listening to the whole thing in sequence
So even though our music video reaction is already out
We're actually right at this very moment, I haven't heard it yet
We're gonna be listening to the first three then starting a separate video for the music video
and then finishing the last three
refreshing ourselves and then discussing the album
Henry: It's gonna be great. I heard from some of y'all that a box of tissues are going to be needed
So I have those ready. I have some water in case I need to rehydrate
Umu: So without further ado
Let's jump right in three, a two, a 3, 2, 1
Abort?
Warning warning warning [ref to Day6's Warning!]
Breathe in, breathe in and out and in and out and out breathe in-haha [ref to Day6's Emergency]
Fantastic baby dance~ [ref to Big Bang's Fantastic Baby]
Henry: Organ...?
I love that
Umu: Is this the denimalz talking?
Umu: Good chords!
Henry: Oh that silence was killer!!
Umu: It's what feels like halftime
Still getting that floating vibe with a little triplet transition
Henry: Daaaang...
Henry: *vocalizing*
I love that stack on the vocals!
Umu: Yeah, common time!
*vocalizing* ooOOOoo
du-duh-dun du-duh-dun Now we're- it's- we're riding space horses
Umu: *pew pew*
Henry: Bring it on, bring it on, bring it on
Umu: Okay, what is landed going to sound like?
Huh, let's just jump right in. I remember... um...
Day- should I call them Day6 or Even of Day? Let's call them Even of Day
I remembered Even of Day said that they experienced a lot more widths and sounds
since you know, they're down two guitarists
So they play it around with more-
Computer-
Synth production
let's yeah I'm going to start at the very end
of...
The intro and go straight into
Landed so 1:40 of intro 3, 2... 1
Umu: Oh little- sounds like it... pentatonic
*vocalizing*
Very open floating feeling
[Hayao] Miyazaki uses this scale for when there's scenes in this sky- hEllo
Almost a descending 5th sequence
Henry: I'm really feeling the drums
Henry: It's very pretty, very pretty feeling
Umu: It still feels like we're building...
we're still having that-
percussion... are we gonna have a release soon?
Didn't quite have the release I was expecting because we're still
banging away
Okay, that's Young K singing an octave down
That's a cute little trade-off between Wonpil and Young K
I like the little either synth or vocal part
Is it still there?
we'll go back and point it out again
It's kind of like a counter melody to the main vocals
Thinking back to the motif from the beginning
we're STILL bAngiNG awAY
Henry: I wish I understood korean...
Henry: I like that... pulling back on the yeah, yeah~ *baam*
Umu: Because we have like the oohs in the vocals
And the octaves below are turned up pretty loudly
Umu: We'v-
Changed the persistent eighth notes
Oh there there it is again, but it went to hi-hat for a second
that was like-
The second break we've had in the texture before it was a drum and then we had Wonpil
Umu: Yeah, there it is
*vocalizing*
The vocals are layered in with that synth line
Henry: Mhm
A lot of fast-moving harmony here
Umu: Interesting, okay, I'm gonna go and look- read the lyrics
Because felt like the entire time we had no
Release we had no settlement
We were like constantly flying up in the sky even though it's called landed
So let's, let's read the lyrics
"I'm laughing but why does it hurt?" Oh, GEEZ
*I like it, but why does it sting?*
I guess it kind of feels like you're wandering, it feels like there's an endless
Motion forward so that fits in with those lyrics
"Why won't the fear stop?" Am I reading the right lyrics I did not-
expect these...
well, um that gave me a totally different interpretation of the song
*spongebob card* meanwhile~~
H: Uh, we're gonna watch the lyrics this time as I listen to landed
Oh no...
this changes everything-
aHAHHHHAHHAh
nOOOOOOO, It's such a-
happy sounding song
eye- yah....
*sad boi times*
H: aHHHHHHH [lyrics from colorcodedlyrics.com: Days drifting around, Without an answer, Nowhere could I find love]
sARANGHAEEEEE [I love you in Korean]
This makes the harmony make so much more sense
*emotional sigh*
This changes everything...
This changes everything... Wow, I uh- I-
I understand why I need to have one of these [tissue box] although it hasn't hit yet, It takes me-
Everyone it takes me a little longer to get there so like movies and musicals
they usually they do the job because I'm there for a couple hours, but
Uh songs are so short that I need some time to process and feel but oh my gosh
U: Huh?
I wanted to go back to the first verse in which I thought I heard Dowoon singing
but it actually just might have been Wonpil singing an octave down from himself and they just
boosted it up a lot and
Just allowed the lower frequencies to really keep it
Like cut through the rest of the mids, mid frequencies
Um in- I kind of want to talk about an orchestra
how there are four french horns and
The first and third typically get the higher parts
The second and fourth typically get the lower parts and second and fourth support the
First and third now when the second horn is in harmony with the first horn
Even though you're playing lower
You need to be quieter, um because the more important notes are given to the first horn. However,
If you're not in harmony with the first horn if you're an octave below if you're unison
But just you know different range frequencies
You have to play louder than the first horn so because those lower notes
support the higher notes in a way and it fills out the sound
once our sound reaches the audience and so
They turned up the octave below like-
A lot like that really peaked out
I'm not used to hearing day6's lower scene being so prominent in the mix
So that was an interesting take away from this
This freaking sounds like a vacation I swear
this song sounds like you're flying through the sky
on Laputa castle in the sky [Ref to the movie Laputa: Castle in the Sky] you're freaking flying into the, the-
Universe!
Like that's the vibe this song gives off to me just sonically
and melody wise and then the lyrics are just like so
s a d ㅠㅠ
Now we're moving on to Ocean and then we'll be moving on to the music video right after that
3, a 2, an Ocean interlude 1, 3, 2, 1
Hello ocean
Okay, so those are the Denimalz
H: ooOOo
oooOOooh
A laid back with this one
U: Is this whistle going to continue into where the- oOHHH a nice chord there
U: Oh! the ocean's getting closer
H: I wouldn't-
I would call this probably just a heavily swung duple. It doesn't really feel like
123, 123, 123, 123-
although the drums are kind of
Playing that
U: ooOO that little slide *vocalizes*
That's love?
H: *uwu* Ooh it's so cute~
U: Well, I assume something bad is just about to happen
because there was some thunder and then the Denimalz screamed nOOOOOO
Yo, so while listening to that I was having a flashback to... I don't know if anyone else watched this show
Um, but it's most likely your grandparents watched it or maybe your parents
but Lawrence Welk was this american show where-
there...
Was a host and then he'd say some words and he'd be like, let's get the show started and he'd have dancers
He'd have skits he'd have
a...
full on
band, and he'd have a bunch of singers and
The part that when Young K started coming in with those harmonies the way that the harmonies developed
not necessarily the way that he sung them because
Back when Lawrence Welk was filmed, I think vibrato was very very prominent in everything
And this was more straight toned, but those harmonies and the acapella-ness
Of it like just full-on throwback to watching
Um an acapella group or just singers harmonizing with each other on Lawrence Welk came into my mind
Wow
H: To wrap up my thoughts for this beginning. It's really interestinnng~
like it has a kind of a more commercially popular sound than
what I'm used to hearing with Day6
where it kind of it has a bit more of an alternative and a rock feel but I'm-
Really feeling landed
I don't know that just the sounds they use are so unique, you know doesn't really feel like a standard sampled
sound, they really crafted something on their own whether or not it was live in a studio or, or like just
Fiddling around in a program, but it's, it's really unique that, all right-
H: Gonna pause here Umu and I are gonna watch the music video for "Where The Sea Sleeps"