Orange Range There is some juice left in the latest offering from Okinawa rap-rockers Orange Range - but not much. Three albums on, and after 2005's Natural cemented the group's shift to more populist hip-hop, the songs are starting to sound a tad tired. So, although this self-titled fourth album packs in Japan's World Cup theme song, Champione, and the hit single Sayonara, it sounds like droning after a while, with the band repeating the same gags and going through the same musical progression. Perhaps former foundin member Kitao Kazuhito, who left the group in mid-2005 before Natural due to creative differences, was right. Orange Range shouldn't pander too much to hip-hop.
