It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from the Means Higher company, whose roster expanded final yr. Lim Sejun re-debuted as a soloist with the nice Summer season final Could however hasn’t promoted since. New singer Pray For God is a really completely different beast, its synth sound feeling way more aligned with company masterminds from20 and Good day Gloom.
Sejun goes full-on Michael Jackson within the video, which is at all times a great musical place to begin for me. I’ll by no means say no to a cool little bit of dance pop, although it’s been executed so usually that it takes one thing very particular for a track to face out. On this regard, Pray For God is strong but unspectacular. It does the factor so many of those trendy songs do of their refrain, the place many of the manufacturing strips again to focus solely on the bassline. This strategy is never profitable for me as a result of it appears like such an anticlimax the place a climax must be. A way of payoff is what made the Jacksons’ music so indelible. Simply consider these megawatt choruses!
As a substitute, Pray For God is slinky and subdued. There are many different songs similar to it, making me want the manufacturing or songwriting would have executed one thing completely different to face out. The verses are strongest right here, injecting much-appreciated drama over a mattress of blaring synths. If solely that they had stretched that stress all through the whole track. It resolves too rapidly and too usually, letting us off the hook once we must be on the sting of our seats.
| Hooks | 8 |
| Manufacturing | 8 |
| Longevity | 8 |
| Bias | 8 |
| RATING | 8 |
Grade: B-