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While I was commuting to uni, just a couple of hours before this release, I started to listen to their discography on shuffle because I couldn’t stop thinking about listening to the new songs, and I came to realize just how much improvement there is between their older and newer songs. Listen to their first EP and then come back to this. There’s a world of difference. They themselves have talked about how they feel like they’ve massively grown as artists, and how, as their ... read more

I haven’t been following NCT closely for a while, so I didn’t even know YUTA was releasing a solo album until the Off The Mask MV appeared on my YT recommended, and I’m very glad I decided to click on it and check out the full EP.

The one thing I loved the most is that from the songs, to the lyrics, to the styling and visual motifs, everything is so unapologetically J-rock. Prechorus sounds straight out of a DMC5 character theme. There’s a Danganronpa-esque line about ... read more

Genuinely surreal seeing idols drop something like this, really REALLY hope XH continue experimenting with their sound and keep this intensity for some of their future releases.

Cinema Paradise starts out with the biggest highlight of the album. The main track GOOD SO BAD is a feel-good structurally diverse song elevated by a beautiful composition of synths, which particularly stand out in Hanbin’s part in the bridge. Everything about this song comes together to create, in my opinion, the best title track we have gotten all year from the k-pop scene, and one of (if not the best) from ZEROBASEONE. Absolutely fantastic opening.

However, with KILL THE ROMEO the ... read more