Right here’s the factor about Cortis: I actually need to like their music. I believe REDRED is genuinely implausible and what I’ve seen of the members filling in for host duties on weekly music reveals has been very charming. I like the concept of younger creators coming in to supply one thing a bit completely different than the norm. Nevertheless, I simply don’t suppose the music has been good thus far. It tends to be both mind-numbingly obnoxious or a giant, boring nothingburger. I suppose I choose the previous to the latter (although my rankings don’t all the time replicate that), however neither is a good area to be.

Blue Lips matches squarely into the “massive, boring nothingburger” territory — although I’d strike the “massive” from that description. It’s a brief music, it’s an atmospheric music, and it’s finally a music that goes nowhere. If you happen to benefit from the sounds of artists mumble-singing over muted keys meant to evoke the concept of a “severe inventive assertion”, you’ll most likely take a liking to this. However with none actual songcraft or selection, this barely appears like a music in any respect. It’s an prolonged interlude at finest, consisting of about one concept. The melodies — reminiscent of they’re — are flat and repetitive and the observe dissipates earlier than it even will get going. If Large Hit didn’t insist on selling these songs with music movies I most likely wouldn’t have written about this in any respect. In spite of everything, there’s barely sufficient content material in Blue Lips to cowl!

Grade: F