Other than the standing of Golden Baby’s contract (by my depend, their renewal deadline is in… 9 days?), the largest Woollim Leisure thriller is which of its artists would be the first to interrupt the company’s dreaded three-track album curse. The final time a Woollim artist launched greater than three songs directly was all the way in which again in 2022. That artist occurred to be DRIPPIN, and now the fellows have returned with their second comeback of the 12 months. By Woollim’s dwindling promotion requirements, I suppose they are often thought-about 2023’s winners.

Weekend marks DRIPPIN’s try at anthemic summer time fare. The group has launched a summer time comeback earlier than, however nothing fairly this punchy. The music’s pop rock sound is easy and radio-ready, bounding ahead with incessant vitality and feelgood vibes. It’s a pleasant match for DRIPPIN, although Weekend is just too straight-laced to showcase a lot character.

It is a case the place private bias wins the day. Objectively, Weekend is nothing particular inside its style. Its refrain lacks the distinctive melodic perspective to face out and its manufacturing is unadventurous at each flip, merely hitting the anticipated beats. But, I’m a sucker for this general sound. So even when Weekend doesn’t thrill me or have interaction my feelings like TWS’s similarly-pitched hey! hey!, I’m all the time down for some good, guitar-laced enjoyable. In a severely underwhelming month of Ok-pop, I suppose this will get the job finished.

Grade: B