Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.
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: Stray Kids, ITZY, NCT U, CRAVITY, Seori, VERIVERY, T1419
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 …
Read More »Rundown: The Boyz, Cheng Xiao (WJSN?), TEMPEST, BANG YONGGUK, Super Junior, MSG Wannabe, BLACK LEVEL
Two boy group debuts that actually give me hope for them going forward, at least musically. Also two soloists who haven’t been on my radar for a while making me …
Read More »Rundown: Billlie, TXT, N.O.M, Sorn, CRAXY, Solji, SKY-HI, T1419
A relatively slow week in terms of big name releases, but we always have N.O.M. ====== T1419 – “Run Up” The Japanese debut of a group I have yet to …
Read More »Rundown: Suzy, STAYC, BTOB, WONHO, some Korean hip-hop + others
Some solid stuff this week, though still nothing I really wanted to review. With the Olympics over I’m chomping at the bit … and yet. ====== Suzy – “Satellite” Felt …
Read More »Rundown: Epik High, A Pink, Taeyeon, TREASURE + more
Things are actually beginning to look up in Korean music this year, honestly. Not necessarily the singles, but the b-sides are quite nice. —— A Pink – “Dilemma” A similar …
Read More »Rundown: Jungkook, VIVIZ, Rolling Quartz, Astro, WONPIL, Ha Sung Woon, and others + 2022 questions
I think I kinda zoned out and assumed releases weren’t coming out because of Lunar New Year, but there actually has been a bunch of them and I was just …
Read More »Rundown: ATEEZ, Kwon Eun Bi, JAMIE, Mark, Song Soowoo
Not much to go over nowadays since releases have slowed considerably for Lunar New Year … maybe that’s a good thing. Hoping for better to come in 2022. ====== ATEEZ …
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