I’ve not been shy about expressing how fully underwhelming this month (and final month) of Ok-pop has been. In reality, when January’s common score is calculated, we’ll most likely be taking a look at a traditionally low quantity. Due to this, I’m grabbing onto something midway first rate I can discover. Hell, at this level I’m clinging onto any music that really includes singing!
8TURN’s Bruise positively comprises singing, and that’s one in all its largest strengths. It’s not the overall knockout I hoped for primarily based on teasers. Its verses are a lot weaker than the refrain. However like I stated, at this level I’ll take what I can get and when Bruise is firing on all cylinders it looks like an olive department prolonged to these of us who take pleasure in singing together with melodic Ok-pop. Higher but, the monitor doubles down on the sort of boy group craving that was a pillar of the business’s strongest eras.
Bruise‘s calling card is its refrain, which gives beneficiant doses of prolonged melodic strains over thundering drums. It is a satisfying mixture that might construct to an much more efficient climax. The music doesn’t fairly nail that “construct and construct and construct and EXPLODE” construction this template thrives on, leaving the listener wanting extra. A second verse lure breakdown additionally sacrifices some momentum. Nevertheless, I’d reasonably a gaggle barely hesitate with a sound like this than fart out one other chant-heavy TikTok meme.
| Hooks | 9 |
| Manufacturing | 8 |
| Longevity | 9 |
| Bias | 8 |
| RATING | 8.5 |
Grade: B