Song Review:: AB6IX: SEVEN : CRIMSON HORIZON- BOTTOMS UP

• Release date: 2026 March 16

• Album tracklist: Given, BOTTOMS UP, Forever, So Sweet (0522), Pieces of Youth, Holiday, Sometimes, Your Tomorrow, Faded Trail, Side by Side, Endless

• Album runtime: 37 minutes

 That is a lot of capital letters. I'm not just shouting at you. You know what's really funny? One of these members is in the Greatest Hits post I'm going to drop here soon. I did not plan that deliberately; it's simply one of those funny happenstances. Anyway, this group is wildly talented as well, and I've got a soft-spot a mile wide for several of them. And we have an average of almost three-and-a-half minutes per song for the album, which I am stoked about. And it looks like the members potentially have solo songs folded into the album! One of them is the member I was just referring to! He is not the eldest, though, who is going to need to enlist this year, so that's where this group is at. And their seventh anniversary is also coming up in a couple of months!

This is a very chill song for a title track. I kind of like it. I also like the fact that this is so obviously an encore song that I can practically see the end-of-concert vibing and playing with the fans. The guitar is fun. The beat is firm but not overpowering. We also get audience participation clapping, which is vital for this kind of song. 

They do the thing where they say the group name. I'm really happy. There is so much of the group singing. There is a tiny bit of the group shouting thing, which I'm not always pleased with, but considering at least part of that wall of sound is going to be them (and the fans presumably) singing together (and actually singing because that's also when we get the ad-libs), and it's clearly meant to be a group excitement, one of those fun shared experiences I learned about in my performance studies class, I'm less annoyed by it. We also get some vibrato in places. It's not very strong, but it's there, so I'm happy.

You know, knowing that the eldest current member of the group is going to be enlisting this year, that makes this whole song a little poignant. There's also a shot at the end, where one of them steps out away from the group, while they wave to him at the "Until we meet again, good goodbye, good goodbye" part, which has my enlistment senses tingling even though we haven't had an official announcement yet. I may need to hunt down a photocard of his for my Enlistment Wall. But it's also very fun and I feel most of it in my bones.