Song Review:: Xdinary Heroes: X room {Pre-Release)

• Release date: 2026 April 17

• Album tracklist: Helium Balloon, Voyager, No Cool Kids Zone, Hurt So Good, Rise High Rise, KTM, X room

• Album runtime: 22 minutes

 I'm doing this one now so I don't have to scramble to do it later when the actual album comes out. I'm very excited about this because Xdinary Heroes is a) a band and we know how I love those, and b) I tend to like what they've got going on.

The song starts off feeling a little haunted castle, and then there's a shift before it fully commits that had me raising an eyebrow. This is largely a fairly mellow sound that just feels kind of sad, but there is a point where we get a very pointed shift that's almost aggressive, but it also softens as much the other way so we're getting an excellent range to this song. I'm getting kind of a CNBLUE vibe off this instrumental, which is a huge compliment from me. 

Ah, lovely, lovely vibrato. Thank you for being a band and thus being allowed to show off the vibrato y'all have. Like with the instrumental, we've got a solid range vocally. The shift at 1:26, while I really like it, feels like it comes out of an entirely different song, and I'm not sure what to do with it. Still, I'm going to be adding this to a few of my playlists.

So, we get an extra thirty seconds of music video here, which means we also get an extra thirty or so seconds of storyline. And that storyline is a kick in the gut by a Clydesdale.