Editorials

When it comes to NCT 127 title tracks, I’ve learned never to let my first impression color my final thoughts. I’m almost always underwhelmed the first time through, and that’s …

I’m a big fan of artists sticking with a small circle of producers for the bulk of their career. Even when their music branches into new terrain, this kind of …

Deep Cuts has returned, folks. It’s a miracle. Time to quickly catch up on months of shit before the year-end list. —— Weki Meki – “Metronome” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUZNPMzfpI “Metronome” captured my …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …