Track Assessment: tripleS – Child Flower

Japanese mega-girl group/collective Sakurazaka46 just lately launched just a few gorgeous singles, which bought me excited about what a 20+ member group can sound like. In my thoughts, the music ought to be as immense because the configuration, and I haven’t usually felt that manner about tripleS’s output. Their songs really feel too small for his or her idea, and I hold ready for them to blow their sound large open.

We inch nearer to that second with new title observe Child Flower, which takes them down a propulsive, rock-infused route. The track boasts greater than somewhat of the “highly effective innocence” idea re-popularized by GFriend a decade or so in the past, which isn’t stunning given producer EL CAPITXN‘s involvement within the observe. His work with AHOF has pointed towards a passion for the sounds of Ok-pop’s mid-2010s, and I’d love nothing greater than that type of songcraft to make a resurgence this 12 months. Child Flower isn’t up there with the most effective of the style (that’s a tall order to fill!), but it surely tries its coronary heart out and that’s a really profitable formulation.

So many Ok-pop tracks as of late operate firmly within the “I”. “I’m the most effective. I’m your bias. I’ll make it lemonade.” In distinction, Child Flower seems like quaint “we” track. “We can do it. We’ll get ’em!” I’ve at all times most well-liked this strategy and I love the musical ambition on show right here. The track climaxes with just a few excessive notes that really feel uncomfortably executed (24 members and also you couldn’t get them to sing collectively?), however general that is good, rousing enjoyable in a basic, anthemic type.

Grade: B