Layover

I believe V is the last BTS member to release his solo debut, and it looks like they kept the best for the end.

This EP does a wonderful job at bringing together a bunch of smooth rnb songs, they all flow flawlessly into one another, and each brings their little something to add a new colour to the piece.

Starting with the lo-fi touch on "Rainy Days" with its slightly detuned piano. "Blue" might be the only song that as lacking of that little thing that makes the other ones interesting. It's also the shortest and if you remove the endless "blue, blue, blue" that brings nothing much to the track, you're left with barely anything. Hopefully, "Love Me Again" comes right after. It was the first single to drop and it caught me off guard when it came out because, to be honest, I wasn't expecting to enjoy anything coming from one of the guys as much as I did here. The song is very mellow and his voice sounds warm and velvety. It's a very pleasing tune.

Then "Slow Dancing" brings a tiny bit more energy as it's more upbeat and sophisti-pop influence. The flutes at the end are great and it's my favourite song here. The last new track is "For Us", and I must say it's a bit of another surprise, I didn't expect to get bits of chipmunk soul in this project but here we are. His voice feels even more vulnerable on this one, and he already sounded intimate on the other tracks. To finish, we get a piano version of "Slow Dancing", I wouldn't call it a piano version because it's the same as the original but with the piano doing the ending melody instead of flutes, and I prefer the flutes as well as the presence of the synth we get on the original song. I also can't think of another name to replace it but to be honest, I just don't see the point of it being here if you're not going to make it a proper piano version (ah yeah overall album length and additional streams?). Just make it a YouTube thing. Then the song is of course still great, as it's the same as the normal one, so as I liked the original version... yeah you get it.