Tune Assessment: TXT – Ghost Woman (Yeonjun solo)

TXT’s new (full) album weighs in at eight tracks and a paltry twenty-one minutes. This brevity isn’t distinctive to TXT and I don’t imply to name them out particularly, but it surely’s consultant of decisions the Okay-pop trade is presently making. A lot effort appears to enter all the things surrounding the music, even because the precise songs develop shorter and fewer developed. On this case, that effort contains music movies for every of the members’ solo tracks. Consistent with the truncated nature of the album, I’ll be writing mini opinions for every music because the movies are launched.

We’re bursting out of the gate with my favourite of the solos. In reality, Yeonjun’s Ghost Woman might be the very best music on the entire album. It’s additionally one among solely two tracks that crack the three minute mark. Somewhat than the quirky hip-hop of his solo single GGUM, Ghost Woman blends rock music with a reggae beat. These two genres might sound incongruent, however their distinction works to the music’s profit. Whereas the construction is comparatively flat and by no means climbs to any notable climaxes, the off-kilter rhythm retains curiosity excessive and some well-placed percussive thrives break up an in any other case simple groove and repetitive melodic cycle.

Grade: B-