Many Pieces

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Many Pieces
ELT ManyPieces.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 19, 2003 (2003-03-19)
Recorded2001, 2002
Genre
Length67:19
Label Avex Trax
Producer
Every Little Thing chronology
Cyber Trance Presents ELT Trance
(2002)
Many Pieces
(2003)
Every Best Single 2
(2003)
Singles from Many Pieces
  1. "Jump"
    Released: October 17, 2001
  2. "Kioku"
    Released: May 15, 2002
  3. "Sasayaka na Inori"
    Released: August 16, 2002
  4. "Untitled 4 Ballads"
    Released: December 18, 2002
  5. "Grip!"
    Released: March 12, 2003

Many Pieces is the fifth album of the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing (ELT), released on March 19, 2003. Many Pieces showed a drastic change in ELT's music, because of the departure of synthesizers and the change in Mochida's vocals.

Contents

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Mochida Kaori

CD
No.TitleMusicArranger(s)Length
1."Jump" (Jumping Mix)Mochida KaoriAkira Murata4:06
2."Flavor"Kunio TagoMasafumi Nakao [b] 5:27
3."Stray Cat"Kazuhiro HaraExpo4:40
4."Ambivalence"TagoMurata [a] 4:33
5."Sasayaka na Inori" (ささやかな祈り; A modest prayer)TagoExpo [a] 4:56
6."Nostalgia" Kazuhito Kikuchi Tasuku [b] 5:50
7."..." (・・・。; ten ten ten maru) (Instrumental) D.A.I Ichiro Ito1:40
8."Kiwoku" (キヲク; Memory)KikuchiMurata [a] 5:27
9."Tie-Dye"TagoTasuku [b] 4:40
10."Grip!"Hara HΛL 4:50
11."Self Reliance"TagoTasuku [b] 4:11
12."Unspeakable"KikuchiYasuo Ohtani, Nakao [b] 4:24
13."Ai no Uta" (愛の謳; Love song) (includes hidden track "Free Walkin'")TagoMurata12:35
Notes

Charts

ReleaseChartPeak positionSales total
March 19, 2003Oricon Daily Albums Chart1
Oricon Weekly Albums Chart1526,542 copies sold


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