Song Review:: QWER: Blue Whale

• Release date: 2025 October 06

• Album tracklist: Blue Whale

• Album runtime: 4 minutes

 Yes. We have a four minute song. Yes, yes, yes. While I do have three minutes as the point where I want my songs to be, I really would prefer them to be three-and-a-half. Although in the rare occasion that I don't like the song, then it doesn't matter how long it is because I'm not listening to it, or really talking abut it ever. QWER, though, they tend to give me songs I like, so I'm excited about this one even if it is only a single.

This is nice. The instrumental feels a lot like the sad, but happy, country music from the early to mid-2000s. I doubt that it was inspired by that, although I would be delighted to find out that it was, but there's a very specific acoustic-ability that this song shares with that flavor of country music that I deeply appreciate. I get a hankering every once in a while, and this soothes it fairly well. Slow, chill, textured and varied enough that it can't be relegated to background music easily, but also functions as that soft relaxation sound.

The vibrato in this group. Gorgeous. I mean, I love them in general and this song is really just proving why. They've got such solid voices, and because they're a band, they get the freedom to show off their vibrato. We get some belts and you can hear their techniques very clearly as well. It's really just so pretty. Such a pretty song.

Bands on a beach stress me out because neither sand nor water is necessarily good for instruments. It's a special clip. It's cute. It's sweet. It's very fitting for the song.