Final spring, Mamamoo’s Photo voltaic dipped her toes right into a extra upbeat dance sound with the club-ready Colours. Basically, the Mamamoo members have performed a pleasant job experimenting with their solo materials. And whenever you’ve received vocals as sturdy as they do, you will get away with deciphering nearly any style. This sense of freedom continues with the upbeat retro blast of latest single Need.

I’ve been listening to loads of late-80’s dance pop in the meanwhile, so this music arrives at an opportune time. Its instrumental takes a lot inspiration from that period, stuffing itself stuffed with bounding rhythms and brassy accents. It’s a jubilant, thrilling sound that feels fairly large within the sonic context of Ok-pop in the meanwhile. Photo voltaic’s vocals are equally as sturdy, overcoming and slicing by means of the wall of sound to present the observe loads of character.

Sadly, I’m not as enamored with Need‘s melodies. The refrain opens promisingly, however shortly devolves right into a sing-song chorus that feels too slight for the manufacturing. What Need actually wants is a little more chew to stop it from sounding like a fizzy, throwaway soundtrack to a foolish montage in a drama or film. The second verse comes near delivering this earlier than reverting again to “jazz palms” cheesiness.

Grade: B-