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Following last week’s MATZ, IT’s You is the second ATEEZ unit track from their recent album to be given a music video. In my mind, unit tracks should be used to expand a group’s sound, delivering niche genre experiments that suit whichever members are participating.… Read More »Song Review: ATEEZ (Yeosang, San & Wooyoung) – IT’s You 

OnlyOneOf’s 2022 “Underground Idol” series gave them great focus, helping to carve out a sonic and thematic place for their music. Since then, their work has become more fractured. The abrasive Seoul Drift grew quite addictive over time, but their BL drama “Bump Up Business”… Read More »Song Review: OnlyOneOf – dOpamine

Though I didn’t love their debut track, 8TURN’s first comeback Excel proved to be a big grower and eventually took a spot on my “Top 50” year-end countdown. As with most rookies, I feel they have a ton of potential and they’d benefit from further… Read More »Song Review: 8TURN – Ru-Pum-Pum

Frog is the project of Daniel Bateman, and GROG is the first album that his brother is a fully fledged member of the band. The band describe GROG as “gothic and cartoonish” like “big gargoyles, dark skies, storms, but the statues are of–ah!–real monsters.” The… Read More »Track by Track: Frog – ‘GROG’