So in the last couple of days as I was searching my massive itunes list for something to listen to I decided on IOSYS, a group I hadn’t really listened to at all for the past few months. This mainly had to do with their last album Touhou Suisuisuusuu released at C72. On my first listening of it I thought it was complete garbage. Nothing really stood out to me as catchy or even really good. However, as I’ve been listening to the album again I’ve discovered there are actually quite a few good tracks on, particularly the epic duet 二つの翼 which has quickly become one of my favorite songs from IOSYS. Overall I find the album to be weaker from past albums but still featuring some quite good songs.

Renewed of my faith in IOSYS I downloaded their latest album from C73, tōhō kasokusōchi. Lo and behold I find this album to be even more lacking. There’s only a couple of tracks, 讃えよ我を、祀れ奇跡を and Power of dream, that I really like at all. Maybe I need to listen to it when next comiket comes around to really enjoy it. Overall IOSYS seems to get weaker and less original with every album. Tōhō otomebayashi, my first IOSYS album, is still my favorite, not just for Marisa Stole the Precious Thing but the other excellent vocal and instrumental tracks. Tōhō tsukitōrō is also a very strong album for being all vocal tracks, though it lacks the beautiful instrumentals of the former album. I enjoyed tōhō eijanho less than the other two though it still contains a few very good tracks, like the insanely catchy neko mimi Reimu. IOSYS is a good group who can compose some wonderful remixes and great vocal tracks, though with their later albums it seems like they lean on the vocal tracks too much, leading to mostly hit or miss affairs. I look forward to their next album, hoping I enjoy it more than their latest (though maybe not hoping much).

Since there’s literally hundreds of Touhou remix groups out there, way more than my poor computer can handle, who’s your favorite group, or who you think does the best remixes?