It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from the Manner Higher company, whose roster expanded final 12 months. Lim Sejun re-debuted as a soloist with the nice Summer time final Could however hasn’t promoted since. New singer Pray For God is a really totally different beast, its synth sound feeling way more aligned with company masterminds from20 and Hiya Gloom.

Sejun goes full-on Michael Jackson within the video, which is all the time a very good musical start line for me. I’ll by no means say no to a cool little bit of dance pop, although it’s been executed so usually that it takes one thing very particular for a music to face out. On this regard, Pray For God is strong but unspectacular. It does the factor so many of those trendy songs do of their refrain, the place many of the manufacturing strips again to focus solely on the bassline. This method isn’t profitable for me as a result of it appears like such an anticlimax the place a climax must be. A way of payoff is what made the Jacksons’ music so indelible. Simply consider these megawatt choruses!

As an alternative, Pray For God is slinky and subdued. There are many different songs similar to it, making me want the manufacturing or songwriting would have executed one thing totally different to face out. The verses are strongest right here, injecting much-appreciated drama over a mattress of blaring synths. If solely they’d stretched that rigidity all through your entire music. It resolves too shortly and too usually, letting us off the hook after we must be on the sting of our seats.

Grade: B-