Music Assessment: The Wind – Celebration Like A Rock Star

It’s been nicely over a 12 months since we final heard from The Wind. Since then, their company has partnered with a brand new administration firm to shift the group’s sound with an eye fixed on world markets. Sure, The Wind are following the trail that 99.9% of vivid, melodic boy teams ultimately succumb to. They’ve ditched their previous inventive group for brand new blood (Block B’s Park Kyung and HYBE mainstay Peridot, to be precise). The factor is, their previous sound wasn’t damaged. The truth is, it was a refreshing oasis in an more and more generic business. Alternatively, new single Celebration Like A Rock Star appears like an ill-fitting t-shirt.

Unsurprisingly given its composer, Celebration Like A Rock Star bears the hallmarks of a latter-day Block B observe. You’ll be able to hear these guys everywhere in the observe and it might have labored higher if pushed by their experience on this style. As a lot as I’ve beloved The Wind’s work up to now, their voices don’t match this materials in any respect. Fairly than act as a elegant reinvention of their sound, the tune comes throughout as far more novice than anticipated. There’s potential in Rock Star‘s shout-along refrain, however the “edgy” manufacturing feels at odds with their pure attraction.

Including to their uphill battle, the group retains dropping its most important vocalists. First, chief Shin Jaewon left and now Kim Hee Soo is on hiatus. You hear this lack of a vocal anchor all through Celebration Like A Rock Star, forcing the fellows to resort to far more sing-talk than the melodically wealthy materials of years previous. All of it provides as much as an pointless reboot that misses each facet that’s made their discography so great.

Grade: C