many of my gripes with this lp, such as its significant over-production, are more of gripes i hold with the whole genre of k-pop. i tried not to judge this lp too harshly based on that, though the production here is particularly sloppy and of low quality.
most of the vocal performances sounded like the vocalist was half asleep, even on higher-energy songs, and dousing the vocals in reverb and autotune can only cover that up so much.
there is hardly any cohesiveness here in any aspect, ... read more