All Mayday fans, it’s time to return.

Mayday’s latest album, 後青春期的詩 (Poetry of the Day After), is surprisingly good. Much more than I expected.  The band’s latest offering is a very tightly knitted collection of songs.

Besides the music, one of the most important details in albums is that it must flow well and there has to be some sort of cohesion that links all the songs together. If not, it can just jolly well just be a collection of songs and not so much an album. For me, that is.

I’ve been quite disappointed with Mayday’s past 2 albums; namely 為愛而生 (Born to Love) and 神的孩子都在跳舞 (All God’s Children Can Dance). For some reason, the songs didn’t do it for me, the links between the songs were somewhat fuzzy. That’s why I was rather apprehensive about their newest disc. Luckily for me, my sis being the more avid fan, bought it.

This CD’s theme very distinctly revolves around life after school; work, monotony, reality, greed and conformity are just some of the topics that were touched on. Basically, adulthood. I guess that’s the natural subject to broach since they can’t just keep singing about the mayhem they wreaked during their student days. Just as well, since their fans are mostly working now. Come on, they’ve been around for more than 10 years already.

This album is definitely going down as one of my favourite Mandarin albums, not that I listen to much Mando-music though. The themes that were sung about in the album are some that I can relate to and peruse over many times. Very close to heart. I like.

Let’s celebrate my return to liking Mayday’s music.