AB6IX – Grab Me
The track is wonderful. Spacious mix
The synths and the guitar work really well together, although the guitar gets a little drowned out in the mix, the bass taking over the low mids and the synths taking over the high mids.
That being said I love the wall of sound chorus you get, with soaring synths peeking out among the vocals, stunning
The track is wonderful. Spacious mix
The synths and the guitar work really well together, although the guitar gets a little drowned out in the mix, the bass taking over the low mids and the synths taking over the high mids.
That being said I love the wall of sound chorus you get, with soaring synths peeking out among the vocals, stunning
The vocals are mixed perfectly, great distortion, harmonies are stunning and have a rock/pop punk leaning that I loved. The performance is emotive and sits in a timbre that suits the track like a glove, helping create a beautiful ear wash of positive, slightly melancholy vibes.
Lets talk about the beat switch. Its not great, the beat becomes overwhelmingly squashed, the vocal sounds grating and the horns are what we’ve heard a million times before. But it’s short, and I’ve definitely heard worse horn sections.
I barely noticed the drums this track, not in a bad way, they serviced the song and thats it.
There’s nothing new here. You could tell me that Seventeen released this song 6 years ago and I’d believe you. I think that’s why this track tugs on my heartstrings, it has a nostalgic flair that reminds one of the Kpop of yesterday.
AB6IX are back on my radar. They have stiff competition from a lot of boy groups right now, but this song stands out as an emotive summer bop.
EVNNE – Ugly
Vocal performance is awesome, energetic and on point. Tastefully effected with autotune, harmonies and reverbs and delays in the mix too.
Its really dynamic too, which occasionally gave me whiplash but it kept my attention.
The synth driven edm arrangement is cool but not groundbreaking, we’ve heard this sound before, the beat is nice and loud and some percussion elements are cool, I would’ve liked a lil something extra in the high mid especially when the rap vocal is quite low
I wanted more from this one, i like this edm driven kpop and the mix is tasteful, but it isn’t song of the year. Keen to see what jellyfish does with ibeun, their vocals are amazing.
IM ft heize – slowly
Singing quite high its refreshing to hear from im
Harmonies in prechorus and chorus are great, well mixed. The acoustic guitar is well mixed even if ive heard it a million times in korean rnb.
Everything besides the guitar in the mix is swimming in reverb and delays, i liked the ethereal, warm vibe this brought to the mix.
The bass is mixed perfectly, i love how acoustic it sounds.
Heize and im play off each other well, heizes slightly low and scratchy voice really suits this rnb Style.
Im not blown away by this one but i also cant stop listening to it. Great track.
IU – love wins all
Ius back with a music video featuring Bts V. Oh, theres a song too.
I was a bit shocked at how muddy the mix is. The low mid elements, piano, bass, some of the strings and I think a guitar? Get buried.
The strings are beautiful and wide giving space to the mix. The drums have some cool delays and huge reverbs which also gives the track space and an epic feeling.
Ius vocal is excellent! Really amazing performance.
This track was let down by the mix, im hoping for better from iu in the future
CIX – Lovers or Enemies
This cix track is cool.
80s, think tears for fears or simple minds.
I think it was intentional, the vocal is mixed a little low in the chorus, its delivered in an airy way beefed up with doubling and harmonies. I liked how the synths followed the melody that was a hook!
The vocal is mixed kinda weird, at times like the first verse and soaring high note in the backend it sounds very natural, then itll be super produced and digital sounding in the chorus, i found the digital sound a bit unnerving.
Theres this awesome synth in the 2nd verse going whoom whoom whoom, sounded really cool has a kind of sultry and soft sound very cool.
Track has dynamics! Loved the tasteful loudness too.
This track is good, the digital vocal in the chorus weirds me out too much for it to be a 10/10 though
Vcha – Girls of the Year
The latest jyp release, a not kpop kpop group vcha
Arpeggiated 80s synths reminiscent of New Order were awesome
Verses go distorted sounds like taeyangs dont wake me up, it was cool but the energy at this point dips a little too much, i almost lost attention.
Chorus melody uninspired and lacks energy, too compressed and mid heavy in the mix
This vocal is way overproduced. It sounds unnatural, flat and no emotion. Theres a good vocal there, but it’s been effected to death.
This track was trash. Inauthentic, disney channel pop
Kim Jae Hwan – Ponytail
Former wanna one member kim jae hwan has released a solo single, ponytail
piano is warm and has nice attack.
The bass is funky and has a great lick before the prechorus, mixed a touch low at times
The guitar is mixed well for the rnb/funk genre
Rap felt it wouldve been better delivered by a feature, i can picture zico or gaeko on this track
Kim jae hwans performance is incredible. Emotive, great control on the highs, great dynamics, its mixed great too
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