Music Evaluate: Yeonjun (TXT) – Discuss To You

TXT’s Yeonjun made his solo debut final 12 months with the quirky (and finally addictive) GGUM. Now, it’s time for him to strive his hand at an album. No Labels arrives with loads of hype in each Korean and worldwide markets and guarantees to supply a fuller image of his artistry (and physique, if judging by the visible teasers). The brand new music video consists of three songs again to again, however Discuss To You has been designated because the album’s title monitor in order that’s what I’ll be writing about right here.

Discuss To You makes an attempt to mix a number of genres collectively. On this means, I hear a ton of affect from Website positioning Taiji & Boys’ mid-90s experiments — notably when the tune provides heavy guitar to its unfastened funk beat. As a part of Ok-pop’s ever increasing legacy, I wouldn’t be stunned if this was an intentional ode on Yeonjun’s half. However whereas I love the imaginative and prescient, I’m not as taken with the tune as I hoped I’d be. Like a lot of present Ok-pop, melody may be very a lot an afterthought right here, however so is partaking movement. The overwhelming majority of Discuss To You is solely Yeonjun vamping over the beat in a halting rhythm.

I get that that is meant to be punk rock angle and exists in an extended lineage of comparable songs throughout the style, however for Discuss To You to work, its manufacturing wants to utterly kill. It has a fascinating dwell band sound however by no means hits as exhausting as I’d like. For those who’re going to anchor your tune with metallic distortion, give it to us full pressure. The drop at Discuss To You‘s middle is a bit wimpy and the hook is just too threadbare to elicit a lot of a response. It feels very very similar to an thought in want of a tune — an excuse for Yeonjun to leap round and look cool with out a lot else to assist it. It’s a disgrace, as a result of I actually suppose he’s one of many trade’s most promising soloists.

Grade: C