![조해인[Haein Cho] - Sight Beyond Sight](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/1224664-sight-beyond-sight_101900.jpg)
seems like KMA can offer one Samara Joy every year ... so many vocalists
the mixing , probably also the recording of vocal was slightly flawed , but this song left was such a legacy as a pophit
Audrey died long time ago ... This man could never go back to the time before <Views> , even with the same producers . Because <Nothing Was the Same>
I AM HAVING HIGH HOPES NOW . The overall vocal performance was like another artist I prefer: Wesley Joseph , but this song is more likely to be directly influenced by the Kanye West's famous 'Runaway' , the drum break leads into the song , then the arpeggiator , which was the piano doing sevenths in 'Runaway' , and the voices chanting with delay & filter , 'who got you' in 'Runaway' . But it is 2025 NOW ! Productionally I think this one is even ... read more
![청하 [CHUNG HA] - Alívío](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/1201511-alivio_030813.jpg)
bad vision for the crew ... 2step for pop infusion is absolutely not new in 2025 , and the ending with that VIVALDI , still not one using classical samples have ever satisfied me
![이승윤 [Lee Seung Yoon] - YEOK SEONG](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/1111947-yeok-seong_190729.jpg)
Songwriting too pop-ish , otherwise this could be a much more progressive project , instrumental was fulfulling enough
even in the ELECTROCLASH / NEWRAVE / NOWAVE realm , these lyrics are more torturing than most .
![최미루[meeroo Choi] - nEwCHAt](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/1215520-newchat_120357.jpg)
what was wrong with the production crew? Seems like the IVE's team are really fond of famous motifs , from the last BIG FLOP with David Guetta , and this ' ATTITUDE' opening to the Fall Out Boy 'Centuries' . I would not appreciate this as some first-listening attracting techniques , this is totally theft and disability for the production crew , SHAMED
not the worse thing , first track is also highly similar to their last so-called _hit_ 'I AM' , and the ... read more
sounding like Nick Hakim melodically from the start , instead of taking Nick Hakim as a producer to make his own stuff , probably more like Nick took over Eddie Chacon's voice to release an album . From the way he separated lines into rhythms , the plugins , the drum patterns used , the melodies .Too much similarities with Nick's 'QADIR' album : <WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD> . Eddie's last album seemingly to be more idiosyncratic for and attractive for me .
WHAT Ａ TRASHY ALBUM COVER ，the XG producers absolutely put their regressive electronic producing-thoughts onto the table . As dancetracks those were completely un-listen-able , outdated and deadly-boring ...
Sit-Com-Like J-pop on an electronic experiment , this project tried to set up a scene , using huge proportion of spoken parts as an intro , Ginger Root did this a lot ,also heavily influenced by J-culcture . But the problem is , as they set up the vocal like this , they failed to balance the loudness well between spoken and singing , the mixing was very bizzarely , maybe wrongly balanced . Productionally this project , the concept was flawed , but the glitch/IDM sound-design was impressive
these melodies pour tears out of me
(If you ever knew how to write a song , you would understand how unexpected the progressive structure , the melody writing in this album is . I have never heard a album of songs that I could never predict the next line . It gave me much inspiration .
The last release of the artist , shared the same dreamy sound and some similar pattern in melody writing , but there is still a huge contrast . Especially the synth usage , that album just cannot make me feel the ... read more
the signature-defining album of the band led by Daniel Kim , but now he really needs to think about the difference between his two identical groups , which could have been different in musicality .
I miss the old BIBI , the characteristics she left behind ... Probably being just a celebrity , an entainment figure was her orientation
![小袋成彬 [Nariaki Obukuro] - Zatto](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/1161230-zatto_151808.jpg)
the <Voodoo> wannabe album from the self-taught musician & producer Nariaki
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On IVE - IVE EMPATHY
"I choose Fall Out Boy as the reference , because it is more popular and more likely to be listened and remembered by people these days . So 'ATTITUDE' could take over the place with this motif ? Like what happened before ? That's the point ! Plagirism is not to be easily defined , but if all listeners dare not to stand against these _songmakers_ with the method , there would be nothing new with the songs . As a listener , I can only lower my marks for the reason , and this showed my ATTITUDE"
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