Review by Roku

I bought this mini-album for the first track, which is a beautiful short instrumental. Ao no Soukutsu is undeniably one of Lareine's best songs, with a very full, ambient sound and rhythmic, synthesized beat. La nostalgie de jardin is more subdued but equally as pretty. Partir is really cute and sounds like an anime theme song!! Overall, these songs paint images in my head of fantasy fairytales. "Princess" is a perfect title for this album!

This is part two of a collection of the songs that first brought Lareine to fame in the mid 90's. The performance quality was enhanced (greatly, in some cases!) and each song has an airy ambience that goes great with Kamijo's emotional vocals and Mayu's Bach-inspired guitar melodies. The sound of this album can probably be described best as "old Visual-kei". Visual-style music of the early-mid 90's just sounds so unique to me that I can't describe it any other way. It's definitely rock, but not too heavy, and some songs include baroque-style elements. In my opinion, many of these tracks are some of Lareine's best songs--they just seem more epic and unique than their newer tunes. On the flip side, listening to these songs and then Lareine's newest releases back to back emphasizes how much Kamijo's vocals have improved over the past decade or so. The most interesting and I think earliest track is "Dir en gray". It's so noisy and unlike Lareine, and Kamijo makes his voice go so deep! (And makes one wonder where a CERTAIN band got their name!!)