1. Atmos // 2. Hours // 3. Risk // 4. Anti Believer // 5. Nonetheless Raining // 6. Thousand Miles Away
POSSIBILITY
A track like Risk, with its uplifting lyrics, might simply come throughout as tacky. But one thing about SHINee’s layered vocal provides gravitas that makes the track really feel way more transcendent. It’s not my favourite observe on the album, however I feel it has the most effective refrain.
Risk opens in subdued trend with the form of beat we’ve heard a lot in Okay-pop these days. To my ears, it seems like a hybrid of so many current developments: UK storage, Afrobeats, and so on. Possibly these manufacturing types have develop into so over-saturated that they only begin to mix into one sound. As with a number of songs on this album, I want the verses had been extra memorable.
Nonetheless, all this tiptoeing round is forgiven after we hit the pre-chorus and (particularly) the refrain. I actually love the melodies right here. They’re immediately catchy and have actual presence. You possibly can inform somebody thought fastidiously about easy methods to construction this phase quite than simply lay down some errant sing-talk and name it a day. Atmospheric synths superbly hint the sides of this hook, including an otherworldly contact that additional cements this as a SHINee track. It’s actually fairly stirring.
| Hooks | 9 |
| Manufacturing | 8 |
| Longevity | 9 |
| Bias | 8 |
| RATING | 8.5 |
Grade: B
