Music Assessment: POW – Wall Flowers

I usually write about Ok-pop teams needing to discover a “signature sound,” however that doesn’t imply the sound is at all times for me. Boy group POW have taken an oddly subdued method with their music, leaning on components of downbeat jazz to gas their aesthetic. It hasn’t labored all that nicely commercially, however a minimum of their discography is considerably constant.

Wall Flowers is a very reserved instance of the POW sound. Muted keys pepper an instrumental pushed by atmospheric synth and barely-there, skittering percussion. It’s not too dissimilar from present lady group tendencies, although the blokes method this differently. Moderately than provide ethereal fragments of melody, they usually depend on the chant-singing often present in blustery boy group tracks. This forges an fascinating distinction, although I’m unsure it really works. I’m enthusiastic about listening to a model of this instrumental with slick R&B model vocals relatively than the incessant sing-talk. We get peeks right here and there they usually sound nice. Sadly, the complete music doesn’t hit in the way in which it ought to.

Grade: C