Pretty rough fucking week except for like one song, maybe two. ====== ALICE – “Drive Away” ELRIS rebranding as ALICE and then ex-Hello Venus member ALICE releasing something immediately after …
Read More »Rundown: CLASS:y, iKON, Wheein, WOODZ, PSY, BUSTERS, ALICE + more
Actually there’s a bunch of quality songs in here this week. Flawed a bit but quite fun. ====== Kang Daniel – “Ready To Ride” Feels like it wants to be …
Read More »Rundown: Miyeon, E’LAST, Soyou, Monsta X, Lee Su Jeong, others
Mainly there’s one standout that deviates from the latest boy group trend that’s interesting. Other than that, a lot of pleasant but forgettable stuff. ====== Lee Su Jeong – “Walk …
Read More »Rundown: JUST B, A Pink, BOL4, YOUNITE, DRIPPIN + more
Honestly, a lot of boring mainstream stuff aside from one exception, and a couple of solid indie releases I thought deserved some run. ====== Kind Of Poison – “Behind The …
Read More »Rundown: SEVENTEEN, Onew, Suho, Kwon Eun Bi, Younha, Jessi, ChoA, BAE173 + more
I fell behind schedule in terms of doing these for new releases, mainly because the baseball season started, honestly. My bad, lol. ====== BAE173 – “JAWS” Obviously isn’t my thing, …
Read More »Rundown: Red Velvet, Oh My Girl, NCT Dream, PURPLE KISS, Heize, MAJORS + others
Writing about things I enjoyed takes me longer, and there’s a lot of it I have yet to publish, so apologies if things have come off overly grumpy. But also, …
Read More »Rundown: Stray Kids, ITZY, NCT U, CRAVITY, Seori, VERIVERY, T1419
Some bright spots — or at least sections of songs — but for the most part a pretty shitty week so far, honestly. ====== T1419 – “EDELWEISS” I feel bad …
Read More »Rundown: Red Velvet, Stray Kids, HIGHLIGHT, Lil Cherry, SUMMER CAKE, Yooryeong & DJ Tiz
A lot of stuff in the recent days that at least I actually enjoyed to varying degrees. ====== Stray Kids – “MANIAC” It’s refreshing in the sense that I actually …
Read More »Rundown: (G)I-DLE, NU’EST, Solar (MAMAMOO), Junsu, Kang Seung Yoon (WINNER), Lee Hi, Kihyun (Monsta X) + bunch of others
Wow, the attack of all these notable releases was unexpected, and some of them were quite solid. ====== (G)I-DLE – “TOMBOY” As I caught up on what I missed while …
Read More »Rundown: Jay Park & IU, Sunmi, Weeekly, Kwon Eunbi, Park Bom, Woong & Daehwi (AB6IX), TAN + more
A lot of the solid to good stuff in this came from rather unexpected sources, honestly. And one expected source. ====== Riiver – “MOVE” Much better on the first listen …
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