The press write-up for Trench Warfare’s upcoming album Achtung! Destroy The Weak says the band’s new album “highlights a much heavier sound.” We’re honestly wondering how much heavier it could be; the band’s last album, Hatred Prayer, was unrelenting. Get much heavier and there will be other things… Read More »Track Premiere: Trench Warfare – “Dissenter”
There are a number of acts who have debuted in the past few decades and have dozens of song ratings on this blog. I thought it would be fun to lay these ratings out in chronological order, line-graph style, and take a macro view of… Read More »BOYNEXTDOOR: A Career In Song Ratings
It’s the battle of the 8s this week, with 8TURN coming back yesterday and LUN8 waiting in the wings today. I don’t think these two groups have anything in common beyond the number in their name, yet I link them together because both feel completely… Read More »Song Review: LUN8 – Sneakers
Last week, Seventeen’s Dino delivered his first work as alter-ego Picheolin. A few days ago, the tracklist for his album was revealed and I became most interested in its title track produced by the elusive K-pop genius Hitchhiker. Hopefully that song is more than a… Read More »Song Review: Picheolin (Seventeen’s Dino) – Micheo Micheo
Hyolyn has become synonymous with summer, first as a member of Sistar and then as a solo act. She’s leveraged that position once again for a new mid-summer album but isn’t playing into obvious summer tropes. New single ChecK could be played year round as… Read More »Song Review: Hyolyn – ChecK