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Glass Bead (from Season Of Glass – 2015)

Earlier Ideas: “Its hooks are sharp and punchy, underlined by a shiny beat that approaches new jack swing with out fully embracing the style. Additional stabs of percussion add emphasis in all the correct locations, urging alongside the group’s sturdy vocals.” (from a 2022 retrospective evaluation)

I bear in mind feeling a bit ambivalent about this music the primary time I heard it approach again in January of 2015. At the moment, it felt fairly totally different from anything dominating Ok-pop charts. However the music performed like a stealth rocket, shortly taking on my playlist and rising increasingly more addictive because the months went on. I’ve written about Glass Bead a number of occasions earlier than, however The Bias Listing didn’t exist when it debuted so my most detailed ideas come courtesy of a “debut re-evaluation” put up two years in the past.

As a marker for what GFriend would grow to be, this is a crucial first step. It’s the beginning of an imperial part of singles that ran from 2015 to mid-2017. Inside that group of songs, I take into account Glass Bead the weakest (only a contact beneath “legendary”). However with out it, GFriend’s history-making arc would by no means have come to cross. Due to that, I’m continuously in awe of its musical imaginative and prescient and its capability to face as an invite to a brand new Ok-pop period.

Grade: A