One song. Every day. Alphabetical order. Keep up with GFriend’s A-Z reviews here! Beautiful (from Fallin’ Light – 2019) The piano arpeggio that opens this track is gorgeous and promises a sense of dynamism that never quite materializes. The instrumental shifts as we hit the… Read More »K-Pop A-Z Review: GFriend – Beautiful
I never got a chance to write about BEWAVE’s debut Sing! earlier this year. That song didn’t do much for me, but I heard potential from this young group. New single Hard To Get To You (너에게로 가는 길이 너무 어려워) moves toward fulfilling that… Read More »Song Review: BEWAVE – Hard To Get To You
Despite consistently releasing new music, AB6IX have struggled to recapture the buzz of their debut era. Instead, they’ve expanded their sonic palette, exploring a variety of genres with generally strong results. 2021’s funky Cherry was one of those successes and new single NVKED echoes that… Read More »Song Review: AB6IX – NVKED
Testament are thrash royalty. The Bay Area gods are still practicing what they preach after 37 years and thirteen full-length albums, the latest of which is 2020’s powerful Titans of Creation. Currently, the “thrashsters” are out supporting the reissue and remaster of their 1987 debut,… Read More »Q&A: Chuck Billy (Testament) Goes A Haunting
We present to you today the latest track, “Rescission,” from five earnest-looking, bearded, black shirt-adorned Scots called Codespeaker. It’s as bleak and monolithic as the structure looming on the quintet’s second full-length, Scavenger, a lurching, dissonant, down-tuned post-metal crusher. The nine-song Scavenger was recorded and mixed by… Read More »Track Premiere: Codespeaker – “Rescission”