Music Assessment: Cha Eunwoo (Astro) – Saturday Preacher

I keep in mind a time the place male idols went off to serve their necessary army conscription and didn’t (or weren’t allowed?) to advertise throughout this hiatus. These days, it’s widespread for these idols to pre-record whole albums and movies to dole out whereas they’re away. The one factor that’s lacking are music present performances! Cha Eunwoo enlisted earlier this 12 months however we get a brand new solo album from him right now alongside funky title monitor Saturday Preacher.

“Saturday Preacher” is a really attention-grabbing title. I believed perhaps it was a longtime phrase, however Google yields no outcomes. I suppose the intension is that Eunwoo is preaching a very good time on a Saturday evening, which I can definitely get behind. As a lot a bonafide star as he’s, I’ve by no means thought his voice had a lot of an on-record presence, so trussing it up with a mass-produced disco association is a brilliant selection. And as anticipated, Saturday Preacher‘s finest moments are when it goes most digital and surrenders to the well-placed use of a vocoder.

I want Saturday Preacher had extra of a refrain than the straightforward pair of repeated melodies we get, however its instrumental swirls with an effervescent vitality that’s arduous to not love. In distinction, the verses are uninteresting and perfunctory, killing time on the dancefloor earlier than the disco ball descends. This can be a blended bag, however its jubilant centerpiece is sufficient to make all of it work.

Grade: B