Coming off the back of Indigo, this album had very high hopes from me. It did not meet many of them. I was already worried at the fact there were so few feats on the album—what made Indigo so great was the fact that RM's voice was able to blend so effectively with all the artists he brought together.

However, I stayed positive, and it was pretty good at the start for a bit! Right People, Wrong Place is an interesting song and the way RM's voice is tuned to say both right and ... read more

Tennis Court's instrumental and ending carries it but it's still a good song and probably something I'd listen to later. The metronome-like instrument was really interesting sonically though, made me interested and active while listening to this. Swingin Party has zero replayability and isn't particularly interesting. Not good but not bad.

Kinda... underwhelming. I expected more coming off from eternal sunshine and the hits that were all across that album's tracklist but nothing really made it as high as 'past life' or 'true story' for me. The best tracks on here are probably needy and bloodline. bad idea and ghostin have potential, but there's not really much else to say about the remainder of the tracks here. I was hoping she would change it up a bit, or do anything to separate the songs sonically ... read more

Incredibly fun house track. I love it. Not really much else to say besides the fact she understands where her voice sounds good now because she truly glides across the instrumental here and it's just so appealing to me.

Outstandingly un-special on first listen. I can see why this would be rated low as it's just not anything special. However, overtime it grew on me a lot and some of the tracks (Blue Lights, Scars, and Sapphires of Gold) truly entranced me. This album probably started as a "eh, not really" to an "okay" off determination alone. I have a lot of faith in her future releases, especially after The Shiver.

Came and went. I can understand why this would be appeasing to someone or interesting sonically but it honestly ended up going in one ear and out the other. All of the sounds they were attempting here ended up blending together and the only song that stood out was Close your eyes. However, I can't deny that it sounds good on the ears even if it's not particularly memorable.

Some timeless hits on here in Comme Des Garcons and XS, but the entire album feels fairly incohesive in a way that Hold The Girl solves. While the album uses it to its advantage to explore interesting sounds (especially on the deluxe with Bees & Honey in particular) it does not help the aimlessness the album suffers from. The whiplash I got from hearing Who's Gonna Save You Now? on first listen after such a non-metallic first half was pretty crazy. Other than that, it's a great ... read more

While the first half is nothing particularly special, the second half is absolutely outstanding. Like seriously. Rina's voice on pop-rock songs just pops even harder and I have no idea why this album is as hated as it is. Is it because she went towards a more pop-rock direction instead of the dance-pop of SAWAYAMA? Some of the tracks on this blow all of SAWAYAMA barring 1 or 2 songs out of the water, with This Hell, Frankenstein, Holy (Till You Let Me Go), and Hold The Girl being ... read more

Annoyingly good. I enjoyed this a lot and I think her voice flows really well on the beat. Has that addictive tendency that a lot of Ice Spice's songs use to their advantage and it works wonders on me.

When this is strong, it's insane. Some of the most interesting and unique production of the time and a beautiful sonically appealing masterpiece. However, "when this is strong" does a lot of the hard work here, and a lot of this album is at best good and at worst questionable. It's still a strong interesting dance album but you can clearly tell when a track was not prioritized. Hot n' Cold, Good Luck, and Feels Like Home are the best tracks off this album (even if Feels ... read more

This is a really great album that's in my opinion heavily burdened by the fact that it tends to extend songs with no real direction. Some of these songs end perfectly where they need to, such as THUNDRRR and GODSTAINED, but songs like THE GREAT BAKUNAWA and CASPER just keep on going and going and going for the sake of length and being artsy. It feels like there's a full filler episode of content here that could be scraped out while increasing the quality of the album. Either way, I ... read more

An incredible album with a mediocre ending. Baekhyun starts this album off so strongly with Good Morning, being such a smooth and slow track that just ends up going by so fast because of how smooth his vocals are. The ending 'Hey, everybody, yeah, Let's get it started, yeah' is such an incredible ending and possibly one of the best endings of K-pop in the 2020s. What an outstanding intro. Pineapple Slice and Rendez-Vous are just incredible songs that show Baekhyun's ... read more

Incredibly boring album that is immediately saved from the trash bin by the masterpiece that is Take My Half. The group songs are nothing special; Upside Down Kiss and Beautiful Strangers are half baked songs which feel directly made to be used in TikToks instead of being interesting songs for the group, and Song of the Stars is solidly okay.

Where this album shines (and falls into the trash) are the solo songs. Dance With You and Bird of Night, the youngest members' songs, fall the ... read more

This is the most boring album ever. I had to fight myself to turn it off because it's just so overwhelmingly mediocre and none of the songs actually end satisfyingly where I can think "that was a good song, wow". The only parts where I stopped completely dreading listening to this are Will I Ever See You Again?, the chorus of One Kiss, and the bridge on Chill Kill (+ interesting parts here and there). I really feel like I'm easily satisfied so I'm not sure why this is ... read more

Everything here is at best okay. It's really heartbreaking because I had a lot of hope for this album but her voice is so perfect for high energy pop songs and it's just not utilized here at all. Some of these songs like Love Potion just feel like an uninteresting beat with her voice slapped on top and the remaining songs that aren't that are mostly slow songs that go nowhere. I really wish I had better to say about this album.

This is such an interesting concept of an album that doesn't feel fully realized. BOYS is a great start that sets the tone fast, but the song quality varies pretty hard as the tone slowly goes down throughout the duration of the EP. Yes We Are and Rage Problem are solid and interesting tracks that feel fully realized, but once it gets to Pretty Boy Swag it's easy to realize there's a lot of problems with the boys' vocals that area clearly being covered up with their raps or ... read more

This is really such an incredible EP to me. It does exactly what it needs to do too. Banger after banger with basically only one less interesting track in Stop & Go that I still adore. The best songs here are hard to quantify as every single song just sounds so different yet cohesive.

How To Get Physical and Good Intentions feel like such dreamy and introspective tracks that hit the heart. Oh Hell and Killshot play off their instrumentals so well and feel like you're getting put into ... read more

Overall definetly feels kinda interesting but oh my god some of these songs are so astoundingly boring (particularly Design and Still 3PM). Silly Dance and poppop in my opinion are the best songs here and while I do particularly like the instrumental and overall production of Melt Inside My Pocket it feels like it misses the satisfying mark and lands in that in-between NCT zone that a lot of NCT Dream releases sometimes fall into. Overall their best work, but their peaks definetly are not here ... read more

Outstandingly okay. There's some solid standouts here like Lucky to be loved and Now Playing that take the tempo down (where TWS and their composers seem to shine the best, based on Last Festival) but the rest of this feels like it's trying to poorly play off plot twist and it's very very uninteresting. I really wish they had better creative direction because some of this has potential but it's not at all realized. It feels underbaked.

Possibly the funniest album ever. I've never heard someone troll on a beat for a straight 46 minutes and I'm incredibly impressed because this sounds really good. Boladona is for sure the best song on here but Matemática is also a standout. I would rate this higher if she got another sample pack for the rest of the album instead of using 1 and the defaults because it starts to make you go insane fast.