Arriving the day after a farewell track from Wanna One, we’ve got another farewell song of sorts from Highlight. The nine-year-old group aren’t disbanding, but members are preparing to serve …
Read More »[Review] The Man BLK’s sound doesn’t stand out, but the members do on “Free Fall”
As the year draws to an end, it feels like we’re suddenly seeing more low-level (ie: not from a huge agency) debuts. The first time I heard The Man BLK’s …
Read More »[Review] D-CRUNCH on verge of breakthrough with “Stealer”
Back in August, I praised the symphonic instrumental of D-Crunch’s debut track “Palace“, but lamented the fact that the song lacked a strong chorus. Then again, a debut doesn’t often …
Read More »[Review] Tiger JK ends the Drunken Tiger name in fantastic style with “Mantra”
Tiger JK has returned for one final comeback as Drunken Tiger, which got off on an excellent note thanks to the pre-release single “Yet“. That release would’ve been hard to …
Read More »[Review] Lafee’s “Love Fever” is an unexpected favourite this season
“Love Fever” is a new single released by artist Lafee, a female solo act I haven’t heard of personally. Not knowing much about her, I was grabbed by her charming raspy …
Read More »[Review] 14U jump on Latin dance trend and ride it to success with “NEWS”
14U are a boy group that debuted last year but had yet to do much of anything to catch my attention, musically or otherwise. “NEWS” changes that as they hopped …
Read More »[Review] With the help of 3LAU, Hyoyeon delivers convincing dance track in “Punk Right Now”
Earlier this year, I spent much of my review of Hyoyeon’s first DJ HYO track bemoaning its lack of structural risk-taking. It slavishly followed the standard EDM, beat-drop archetype. And the …
Read More »[Review] BLACKPINK’s Jennie makes “SOLO” debut, which feels surprisingly empty
The solo debut of BLACKPINK‘s Jennie with “SOLO” always seemed a bit confusing, both the timing of it by YG Entertainment and the rather vague buildup for it through the …
Read More »[Review] H.U.B pick up on Latin trends to comeback with satisfactory “Finale”
H.U.B, who you may only know through Hyosun‘s light popularity on ‘The Unit‘, are taking another stab at the charts with comeback song “Finale.” Or maybe you only know that Rui is hot …
Read More »[Review] DreamNote debut with unfortunately inauthentic-sounding “Dream Note”
As 2018 draws to a close, I can’t help but think the year has been short on memorable debuts. Sure, there were the big ones (LOONA, Stray Kids), but even …
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