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Song Review:: GHOST9: Moonlight

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Release date: 2026 September 23 Album tracklist: Moonlight Album runtime: 3 minutes  After the recent influx of AI slop on their Spotify profile, when I actually took a video of the over thirty songs that has dropped over a single weekend, I was initially deeply suspicious when a new release crossed my profile. Imagine my surprise when I look and the runtime is three minutes, but I don't trust yet, so I check the copyright holder. Not only is it in Korean, which none of the others were, but it's also the name of their company! A third check on YouTube confirms: this one is legit and the group's first release in almost two years! That whistling is aggravatingly familiar. I know I've heard something similar. Whatever. Anyway. There's not a lot of particular vibrancy to the instrumental and that aggravates me because of how strong their earlier songs were. The good news is that this instrumental as a whole almost allows for the illusion of a cappella because this is st...
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Song Review:: Shin Wonho (Cross Gene): Day & Night

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Release date: 2026 October 28 Album tracklist: Day &N ight Album runtime: 2 minutes  This song is woefully, painfully, criminally short, so short that I had to triple check to verify that this was an actual release and not AI garbage and lies. But even though my list of even just the October releases I need to do is long and distinguished, of course I'm going to do the leader of Cross Gene's song, considering I just did a post of theirs for the Expanded Offering. I'm hoping that this is a wonderful addition to the month of spookening because of the album artwork. Well. This was not what I was expecting. We've got a trap beat underneath a generally upbeat instrumental that's also generally weighted down but has a slightly sparkly quality go it. It's good short to have much momentum or change go the song, which is a little bit of a disappointment because of how much I love Fill Me . He actually pulls out a falsetto a couple of times in this song, which helps t...
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Battle of the B-Sides:: god: Sing For Me (feat. IU)

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 This is going to be an eclectic mix of songs this month. I asked my best friend from middle school to give me a song for this month back in May, I think, and she finally decided on a song in October. This isn't that one. I just want y'all to know that you're going to be getting a lot of songs I just feel like doing and after October, I'm launching y'all into November with a song I love so much. Every time I see either god or IU's names I start singing the beginning of this song. It's fully a vocal stim for me, but it's one of my favorite openings to a song, K-Pop or otherwise. Normally, I'd say something like "I'm pretty sure most of y'all have never heard of them" except god has popped up twice in my monthly recaps for songs I was listening to a lot of that month and they were at KCon LA 2024. Oh, and by the way, you pronounce the group's name as "G-O-D," but you'll learn that from this song.  god debuted in 1999...
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Greatest Hits:: VIXX: On and On 다칠 준비가 돼 있어

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 I promised that I'd do a VIXX post, didn't I? After all, what would Halloween be without the original Concept Kings? If you were to have a list of Halloween appropriate songs and it wasn't half-filled with VIXX songs, I'd be confused. In this case, I have a special fondness for this song because I keep singing part of it during my D&D games because it's wholly appropriate for our poor characters. Also, if anyone needs the range of concept that VIXX pulled out, the last post I did for the whole group was VOODOO DOLL, where they were trapped dolls in their own rooms of torment and external control. What is it this time? A lot of fun. VIXX debuted in 2012 as a six-member group under Jellyfish Entertainment. Most of their songs so far have been with the six of them, and considering how early this one is, it wouldn't be surprising that this one is with all six. Which it is. Also, all six of them are over 180cm, so they're also fairly tall. The more you learn...
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Song Review:: Alpha Drive One: UNBREAKABLE : BEAST- BORN DIRE

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Release date: 2026 August 24 Album tracklist: BORN DIRE , Diamond Hour, One More Time, Talk to me , OMG! , Good Life, WELCOME home Album runtime: 18 minutes  Congrats on the win! I'm so behind that we've had another music video drop for a track from this album. I'm deeply disappointed by the runtimes though because there's one that's exactly three minutes long and one that's slightly more than three minutes, but that album runtime is not it. Also, why is the last song so oddly threatening in the title? You know, just as I was thinking about how this song just went full tilt and didn't pause for a breath, it did in fact slow down a little. So that's good that we've got that variation. There's something missing from it to make this instrumental as eerily threatening as I think it wants to be, and I think what's missing is the fact that the song is in a major key. There's nothing technically wrong with it. It's got a lot of really good p...
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June 2026 Wrap Up: Soccer and Ranch

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 Did y'all know I've written over 1200 posts now? And that's not counting the drafts of the reviews I've got sitting to be typed up. Those are just the ones that have actually been posted. I'm super behind on literally everything to do with this blog. But it's fine. June was a good month. Debuts! Debuts I covered were: NXON , Keyveatz , and V8 (Seventeen) . The ones I did not were HAT:Q , B.YOUR SIDE , A-1000 , for groups, HyunHaYo (Treasure) for a sub-unit, and some of the soloists were Renjun (NCT) , Evan (Enhypen) ,  Lee Jae Wook , Kaina , and Kim Dong Geum . I'd just like to point out Lee Jae Wook, because he is of course the lead actor for Alchemy of Souls , which is, of course, the reason that I'm sitting here writing these words in my present and you're sitting or standing or laying there reading these words in your present.  Songs I was looking forward to: SHINee: I love that even though they're not the most active of groups these days, ...
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Song Review:: Keyveatz: OXY_GEN- OXY {Debut}

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Release date: 2026 June 29 Album tracklist: Key Beats , Catch My Breath, OXY , SUB_ZERO (feat. punchnello) , SUCK IT UP Album runtime: 12 minutes  Well, not a single song on here is over three minutes. That's not ideal. Also, the group is not on Underage Protocol, which is nice, because then I get to sit on the song for a little bit. But, let's see what kind of a debut we're working with.  Okay. This is quite the intense song. Even when the skittering beat goes away, we're left with a deep bass that at concert levels is going to rattle the bones in your chest. Very strong techno music going on. There's a spot that's got the variation levels that I look for where that deep bass is cut out, but overall, there's something about the song that feels a bit too frantic for my energy right now.  We've got a decent mix of rapping and singing, which is good. On both ends, we're listening to well-supported voices, and this is obviously a group where it's ra...
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