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Song Review:: JustB: Too Late

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Release date: 2025 August 24 Album tracklist: Too Late , Too Late - Instrumental Album runtime: 6 minutes  Sorry, JustB. I left my list of August releases elsewhere yesterday and couldn't get yours done. I am glad that they're still releasing music though. Considering the news I got this weekend, it's a little bit of a relief.  Okay, so we've got a little bit of a punk vibe going on here with this instrumental. We've got majority drums and guitar, and I'd definitely argue that the primary instrument is the electric guitar, but most importantly, there is a rhythm and a flow. It doesn't just go hard the entire time. There's a relative softness in places as well as an actual softness to join with the more vibrant emoting of the instruments. And there's audience participation clapping. This genre is a good sound for the group. Enough of them have an edge to their voices that it there's a pleasing harmony with the guitar. Interestingly, there doesn...

Song Review:: Just B: JUST ODD: CHEST

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Release date: 2025 March 28 Album track list: KiD, BULLET, CHEST , DOOM x3 Album runtime: 9 mi nutes  I made a joke somewhere about Just B releasing a song a month and for March, they released four. The overachievers that they are. That does mean that I'm not anticipating anything for April though, solely based on the numbers and the fact that I'd rather them rest before they go on tour. But there also isn't a song that's comfortably close to three minutes, so you can guess how pleased I am about this. I wasn't expecting this kind of instrumental to hit me like this. It's 80s electro, and I'm in love. It's so saturated with texture and vibrant colors that I'm annoyed that it's taken me so long to get to this review. It's glorious. You know, if this song was longer, we could have gotten in an EDM dance break and  a bridge, and you know who wouldn't have been upset about this? Me. I love what we got here. Genuinely. I think it could have be...

Song Review:: Just B: "- 한걸음만 (han geol eum man)

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Release date: 2025 February 12 Album track list:  한걸음만 , Hoodie,  한걸음만 - Instrumental, Hoodie - Instrumental Album runtime: 14 mi nutes  I had to check YouTube for which track of the two was the title track, and neither of them has a music video, so I picked the one that had a visualizer come out first. 한걸음만 also doesn't seem to have an English translation, so any time I refer to the title of this song, I will be using the name over in the parentheses. I'm lazy and that's not how I'm choosing to practice Korean right now. Hello, Just B. Glad to see you putting out music. This is their second that they've released so far this year, which currently makes their track record a new song or more once a month.  Ooh, this is nice and cinematic. Soft rock ballad, here I come to settle into this. I can't decide which part of the movie this would be in, but it's definitely something emotional, like the confession moment not in a romcom or the moment when the hero, bea...

Song Review:: Just B: Still I Luv You

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Release date: 2024 January 05 Album tracklist: Still I Luv You , Still I Luv You - Instrumental Album runtime: 6 minutes  Last we saw Just B, they were teamed up with ATBO for Ace of Ace  and now that The CrewOne has broken back apart, this is their first release since then. Their company needs to do a better job of giving them releases, because I'm looking at their list and that's not a lot. And y'all! I just found out that their debut song was produced by Bang Yongguk of B.A.P! Nice! As I always am, I'm very appreciative of the inclusion of the instrumental track. It makes life a lot easier for me. We've got a lovely rock song this time around, but it isn't one that goes hard the entire time. There's even a section of about four seconds of rests right near the end which follows a milder sound and which precedes a burst that is stronger by comparison. I enjoy this a lot. The fluctuating energy levels prevent the song from being stale and provide excellent t...