Song Review:: Kyuhyun (Super Junior): COLORS- Unending Days

• Release date: 2024 November 27

• Album tracklist: Prologue, Unending Days, Journey, Universe, Bring It On, Last Poem, Nights Without You, Horizon, Wishes, One Spring Day

• Album runtime: 35 minutes

 This is his first full album, yes? So that's cool and exciting. Also, even more exciting, all of the tracks except for one are over three minutes long and more than one are almost four and a half minutes. The average would be higher if Prologue weren't just over a minute. I'm so excited for this. He's got a fantastic voice.

The way that the instrumentals are deceptively mellow with that fantastic organ at the beginning and then go to full soft rock ballad with a fierce electric guitar gives me life. The best part is even though the energy generally swells up into the climax, it doesn't just continuously build. The chorus has the most energy, as it should, and there's an actual instrumental break and a bridge, which feels ludicrously extravagant. If this weren't a ballad type, I'd call it a dance break. I suppose he could have some BTOB-style dancing in there, but it would surprise me. Genuinely reminds me of a Bryan Adams song. Yes. Thank you. Next.

Speaking of BTOB, he and Eunkwang have very similar timbres and tones. I'm a lot more familiar with the Eunkwang, which means that even though I'm literally looking at his name on the song, my brain is trying to convince me that it's him. Although, and I know that this isn't Unending Days, but Bring It On? That rapping of his is absolutely delectable. Quiet plug for that song, because wow. Anyway, sorry. Title track. There's a difference between breathy as a tone and soft as a dynamic, and in this case his control of dynamics is completely on display and is fantastic. His voice feels deliberately supported at piano, and then it just strengthens with the crescendo. The technical skill on display is incredible.

I apologize for the BTOB comparison again, but this reminds me quite a bit of BTOB's single from last month, Please Stay. Both music videos use the same technique of using the warm lighting for the past and cool lighting for the present, and have the same sorrowful grief to them. I think Kyuhyun might be playing an old man with either dementia or Alzheimer's, giving the similar costuming. I actually had the thought at the very beginning that Kyuhyun reminded me a little of a kid dressed up in his dad's suit. It's such a sad music video, but it's also so well made.