A Ok-pop act’s title monitor isn’t all the time one of the best music on their album, even when it’s the one most individuals will hear. Generally, b-sides deserve recognition too. Within the singles-oriented world of Ok-pop, I need to highlight a few of these buried treasures and provides them the props they deserve.
There’s a motive I nonetheless watch Ok-pop’s weekly music reveals in full. Whereas I are likely to catch 99% of latest releases every week, there’s all the time an opportunity that one thing passes me by — particularly if it isn’t paired with a music video. And as well-versed as I’m on the historical past of Ok-pop releases, there are nonetheless a handful of artists I’ve by no means listened to earlier than.
Baek Chung Kang is a type of artists. He gained MBC’s Star Audition: The Nice Start in 2011 and debuted in 2012. Since then, his comparatively sparse catalog has been a mixture of ballads and bangers. He’s presently performing Dot Dot Dot on music reveals and it’s a licensed banger with a nostalgic second-gen sound. That is for these of you who love dramatic preparations and big, belt-it-out hooks. Dot Dot Dot opens as a piano-led ballad earlier than the beat drops practically a minute in. We’ve bought surging synths, banging percussion, violin and a dynamic melody that strikes from energy to emotive falsetto and again once more. And that’s earlier than we hit the electrical guitar solo on the music’s climax. The drama! Shut your eyes and picture a newly debuted boy or woman group rising with this actual music. What an thrilling growth that might be! As an alternative, we’ve bought skilled veterans holding this stylistic custom alive. Thank goodness for that.
| Hooks | 9 |
| Manufacturing | 9 |
| Longevity | 9 |
| Bias | 9 |
| RATING | 9 |
Grade: A-
