Song Review:: Wonpil (DAY6): Unpiltered- Highs and Lows

• Release date: 2026 March 30

• Album tracklist: Toxic Love, Highs and Lows, Already Grown Up, Up All Night, Step by Step, Hold My Love, Piano

• Album runtime: 20 minutes

 This isn't my primary streaming service, but sometimes I get a little confused about title tracks when they're in English in some plays and in Korean in other places, as is the case with this song, and Melon actually labels which song is the title track. So in the event that I do get confused, I will check Melon for confirmation that the song I think is the title track is actually the title track. It's basically the only thing I use Melon for, but I do wish more streaming services would do that. Even before I started this, I liked knowing which song I was "supposed" to listen to (and ignoring it anyway because I come from CDs and didn't understand why one song was special when the album had seven others that I loved to pieces when I was little). But can I just say how much I love that Wonpil titles his albums like this. It also forces me to think about how many words in English have a "fil" syllable, and weird games like that is something I genuinely enjoy doing. He's very clever to do that.

I'm going to guess he's a guitarist for the band given the prevalence of the guitar in the instrumental, but there are some interesting things going on here. We start off with an almost industrial science fiction, which is normally a combination of descriptors that gets attached to something like cyberpunk. But interestingly, cyberpunk is not what I am getting from that section each time it pops up. We also get some very playful piano running through a descending scale that I was not expecting and am delighted by. 

Ah. Listen to that vibrato. As expected. Full disclosure, I don't know if he's the lead singer of the band. I could easily look that up and I probably will after I finish this because I want to get this done and I've already been distracted twice. But if he isn't, he sounds like he could be and that speaks well of the whole group's vocals. We've got some big notes here that I love hearing as well, but we've got some soft flips up into falsetto, which is lovely to be hearing the ease with which he can do it.

Ah! It's a yearning break-up song! And look at that storyline! Thank you, Wonpil, for giving us a 3am, belt-the-feels, I'm-angry-and-I'm-lost song.