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Song Review:: Chen (EXO): Arcadia- Arcadia

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Release date: 2025 September 29 Album tracklist: Arcadia, No Gravity, Help Me (Somebody 2 Love), In My Life, Deja-Vu Album runtime: 14 minutes  Spotify has been very helpful in reminding me about this album since it became available for pre-saving. I'm just very behind. Sorry, Chen. I do actually really like his voice, so I was looking forward to this mini album. This may also be the tail end of big activity while they prepare for their first comeback as a full group post-military. That is something I'm looking forward to. The angle on the album cover is interesting. Not bad interesting. Just worth pointing out. Ooh, that was not where I was expecting this to start. My strongest association with the word "Arcadia" is the level in the horror video game BioShock , which is one of my favorites even when I was too much of a scaredy-cat to finish it, but prior to listening to this, I was aware of that and trying to ignore the association. The thing is that the intro to thi...

Song Review:: Chen (EXO): Beyond- Love You

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Release date: 2024 October 01 Album tracklist: Love You , Brighter Than Album runtime: 6 minutes  At this point, I think I'm going to be more familiar with EXO's solo work than their work as a group. The very first song I heard from the group was Kai's Rover , and I fell in love a little bit with him from that song. But, generally speaking, I came in at the wrong time. But, that means I get to know EXO piecemeal, and that will probably be easiest, so when they do start releasing as a group again, I already kind of know them. Since neither song has a music video that I can see, I'm going to pretend the one with more streams on YouTube is the title track. It's a guessing game. We have a piano and some synth and that's it for the instrumentals. A lot of songs might let the synth take the center stage since that seems to be the more popular instrument, but not Love You . Instead, the piano occasionally lets the synth share its spotlight, but also stands on its own f...