Posts

Showing posts with the label Ilhoon

Song Review:: Ilhoon (BTOB): The Adam- Michaelangelo

Image
Release date: 2025 April 30 Album tracklist: MIND, Thoughts in hands, Lullaby , jamesdean , Dance, eve, Long way, MICHAELANGELO , INVITATION, OASIS, moonwalk , The Adam Album runtime: 36 minutes  Fine. Yes. I've put this off long enough. Average runtime is at the three minute mark, which means some of those songs are very long indeed considered moonwalk , jamesdean , and Lullaby are not long and are in fact below the average. The title track is not one of them. Strings. This instrumental is kind of a wall of sound, but quietly intense about it. There are a lot of different elements to it, but it doesn't try to fling you onto a bullet train going at speed. It's in enough Korean that I can't quite tell what it's about, and I'm also not actively trying to see what I can understand, but it feels like a quiet plea with grasped hands and wide eyes brimming with unshed tears. It takes a bit to get going, staying with the drum set for a good thirty seconds before Ilhoo...

Song Review:: Ilhoon (BTOB): The Adam- moonwalk

Image
Release date: 2025 April 30 Album tracklist: MIND, Thoughts in hands,  Lullaby , jamesdean , Dance, eve, Long way,  MICHAELANGELO , INVITATION, OASIS,  moonwalk , The Adam Album runtime: 36 minutes  The time has come. This has been sitting in my drafts, titled but otherwise unused since the song came out. If you remember, the last time he released a song , I basically had it reviewed within a couple of hours. This time I was so far behind that I didn't dare skip the line because then it would simply be chaos. So I haven't listened to it yet, and also partially because I had a feeling that it would devastate me, which was kind of confirmed by my mother who today asked me if I'd listened to it yet and then told me to make sure I had tissues. She has wonderful timing, dearest readers. Still, it's not on purpose that I am doing the reviews for both Changsub and Ilhoon one right after the other. They released songs about the same time that I learned about at about the sam...

Song Review:: Ilhoon (BTOB): The Adam- Lullaby

Image
Release date: 2025 April 30 Album tracklist: MIND, Thoughts in hands,  Lullaby, jamesdean , Dance, eve, Long way,  MICHAELANGELO , INVITATION, OASIS,  moonwalk , The Adam Album runtime: 36 minutes  Before anyone gets grumpy, if I know a solo artist is or was in a group, I include it, even if they haven't been with the group in years and even if the group is disbanded, unless I know that it was a bad break-up (like the case with Stray Kids). I'll respect the group's feelings and follow their lead. But given that I know at least one of the members liked the announcement post on Instagram, that clearly isn't exactly the case. So, until one of the members tells me to change it, I'm going to follow my pattern.  Messy administrative details out of the way, ILHOON IS BACK, BABY! Five years. Most of those years were, to use his words, a time of healing for him. He seems happy. He seems smiley. He seems healthy. That's all I can ask for. And I think I was trying to stay ...