It’s that time of year again! While December is filled with year-end countdowns, I like to take a look back at some of K-pop’s biggest agencies during November. Before reading (especially if you’re new to the blog), it’s helpful to know that my grading focuses… Read More »Grading the K-Pop Agencies 2024: SM ENTERTAINMENT
One song. Every day. Alphabetical order. Keep up with GFriend’s A-Z reviews here! Here We Are (from Labyrinth – 2020) We’re slowing things down again with a lovely mid-tempo track. The opening verse does little for me, but Here We Are climaxes in a beautiful,… Read More »K-Pop A-Z Review: GFriend – Here We Are
I’ve been writing about a different GFriend song every day for the past few weeks (and will continue to do so until I’ve run through their whole discography), so it’s fun when my daily GFriend feature converges with a new single by the group’s spin-off… Read More »Song Review: VIVIZ – Shhh!
Work sucks, I know. And so do Strangelight. On the heels of their new album, Material Conditions, the Bay Area post-hardcore quartet have released a video that invites us to live vicariously through a corporate team member who can no longer take the feel-gooderies of… Read More »Video Premiere: Strangelight – “Gratitude Practice”
“Day One” feels like a beginning, a chilly-but-not-chilling breeze and twittering birds welcoming in the morning as the sun […] The post Album Review: hemlock – ‘444’ appeared first on The Alternative.