Song Review:: JUSTB: Too Late

• Release date: 2025 August 24

• Album tracklist: Too Late, Too Late - Instrumental

• Album runtime: 6 minutes

 Sorry, JUSTB. I left my list of August releases elsewhere yesterday and couldn't get yours done. I am glad that they're still releasing music though. Considering the news I got this weekend, it's a little bit of a relief. 

Okay, so we've got a little bit of a punk vibe going on here with this instrumental. We've got majority drums and guitar, and I'd definitely argue that the primary instrument is the electric guitar, but most importantly, there is a rhythm and a flow. It doesn't just go hard the entire time. There's a relative softness in places as well as an actual softness to join with the more vibrant emoting of the instruments. And there's audience participation clapping.

This genre is a good sound for the group. Enough of them have an edge to their voices that it there's a pleasing harmony with the guitar. Interestingly, there doesn't seem to be any rapping, which may be why some of these vocalists have what I call the rapper rasp, the thing that sounds so good with rock songs. It almost sounds like vocal fry, but I wouldn't necessarily say that it's the same. Having the occasional all-vocal song, to prove that everyone can sing, also proves what I've heard from several idol rappers from older K-Pop gens that if you're going to be an idol rapper, you have to be able to sing; you can't just rap. This is a very pleasing song for me. I like it.

No music video, unfortunately though not unexpected. So here's the track.