RIIZE’s new album has a really sturdy visible factor, with music movies or shortened “observe movies” for every track. Due to this (and since the album is so sturdy), I’ll be working via all the observe checklist over the subsequent few days. Ensure that to verify again typically!

1. Odyssey // 2. Bag Unhealthy Again // 3. Ember To Photo voltaic // 4. Fly Up // 5. Present Me Love // 6. Passage // 7. Midnight Mirage // 8. The Finish Of The Day // 9. Inside My Love // 10. One other Life

INSIDE MY LOVE

In Odyssey‘s nice whistlestop tour of boyband eras of the previous, Inside My Love deposits us proper in the midst of the 1999-2001 teen pop growth, characterised by acts like Backstreet Boys and Nsync. The melodies listed here are immediately paying homage to these halcyon days and boy do I like this sort of songwriting!

The hovering refrain of Inside My Love laces my musical DNA like a primordial pressure. This specific development hits so completely it doesn’t matter what track it’s a part of, and I like listening to an SM group retrace its strains. It’s a beneficiant melody unfolding with its full coronary heart. Some could name it tacky. I’d name it earnest. There’s a giant distinction between the 2. This high quality extends to the verses, which go for a equally dynamic sequence of peaks.

An extended runtime and extra daring association might have simply vaulted Inside My Love to an all-time nice. The manufacturing performs issues protected, sometimes hinting at large percussive confetti-drop moments however at all times pulling again as a substitute of dashing ahead into full-on euphoria. It is a bit irritating and retains Inside My Love firmly inside “sturdy late-album b-side” territory. Nonetheless, I nonetheless suppose this turn-of-the-millennium pop is the absolute best match for RIIZE and really want to listen to them sort out an upbeat track of this nature (suppose Bye Bye Bye, All people or Get One other Boyfriend).

Grade: B+