RIIZE have barely let a month slip by with out releasing new music. That is the right technique to unveil a rookie group, blitzing the market with materials so followers don’t have any alternative to stray elsewhere. Simply six weeks since their funk dynamo comeback Growth Growth Bass, the blokes have returned with their Japanese debut. Fortunate acts as a pure extension of their shiny sound, melding energetic rhythms with slick pop melody.

Over the previous few years, SM Leisure has struggled to match the musical consistency they as soon as held in Japan. Acts like SNSD, SHINee and TVXQ have huge Japanese discographies each bit as lauded as their Korean work. With Fortunate, I’m satisfied RIIZE will be capable of comply with of their footsteps. The tune isn’t extremely formidable or distinctive, but it surely’s in step with the group’s largest strengths and executed with complete panache. It performs as a extra easy model of Get A Guitar, buying and selling that observe’s rhythmic vary for an easy disco pop groove. The manufacturing matches squarely in what I prefer to name “curler rink prepared” music. You may think about taking part in this at any form of occasion, whether or not donning skates or sneakers. It has a carnivalesque, persistently upbeat vitality that radiates pleasure.

Fortunate facilities across the oft-repeated chorus that opens the observe. This melody kinds its refrain, although the pulsing pre-chorus additionally follows the same sound. The tune’s sense of continuity and clean transitions can pay dividends in the long term. I anticipate Fortunate to grow to be a playlist staple, presumably even rising as time goes on. That is largely on account of RIIZE’s ethereal vocal mix. Their association all through the observe is stellar, recalling SM greats of the previous. All that’s lacking is a killer Sohee ad-lib to place the tune excessive.

Grade: B+