Review by Linda Shadow

His Excellency's cover albums keep getting better and better. "Tiara" is absolutely wonderful, a Theatrical Rock indeed!

Starry, stylish and skilled, CANTA is always like that. Luke Takamura is really good at songwriting.

If there were any awards like 'the best-looking album', this one would definitely get it. It looks just as stylish as it sounds.

Very, very good album. CANTA is a great band, they deserve to be more famous. The best CD release design I've ever seen. It's really beautiful and it matches the album very well. Their "1400km/h" PV, included on bonus DVD among other vids, is wonderfully made too, with every next frame being a full-fledged photograph, just as good as those in photo-booklet. If all releases were as good as this one, CD sales wouldn't decline despite all the file-sharing boom. ;)

A small technical note: this DVD has English subtitles for all talks! What a wonderful surprise to all non-Japanese fans of His Excellency! This video is really awesome. I mean, *really*. Supporting musicians weren't hiding behind their microphone stands like those guys from "Demon's Rock Show" did. They all worked together to make a great show, just like Seikima-II did. His Excellency always gives his all, and this time he had the right people in his support team. They really rocked. And O'Hashi-san with his famous striped guitar added to the atmosphere of those few Seikima-II songs included in the set-list.

It's just what the official description says - the glittering best of CANTA (well, as much of it as could fit into a single CD). Something old, something new, something renewed - and it all sounds great together. There are songs from every CANTA album released to this day, so it's also a good and representative sample of their works. A must-have for the fans, and a really nice addition for any music collection.