AMPERS&ONE have an identification disaster. Every time they return with new music, it’s like listening to a totally totally different group. This makes them a difficult prospect to comply with and luxuriate in. Their catalog is so hit or miss and there’s no overriding idea tying the music collectively. I’ve preferred them finest after they go straight for the pop jugular or dabble in early-2010s EDM. New single GOD does neither of these issues.

Calling your pop monitor “GOD” is kind of an announcement, and I want the music backed up that nerve. Sadly, that is one other shouty boy group monitor with disagreeable percussion and overly-familiar hip-hop phrasing. The producers have underlined a lot of the track with conventional instrumentation, however that seems like window-dressing to make GOD really feel extra culturally related than it’s.

For me, there aren’t many nice moments in GOD. The ear-catching vocals and photographs of concord throughout the refrain are obliterated by repeated gruff shouts of “GOD! GOD!” and all the monitor has this tinny, low cost sound. It’s as if the producers combed by their pattern library for probably the most disagreeable drum machines they might discover. The verses are a non-entity, churning out the identical vibe as so many different boy teams. So far as reinventions go, that is an uninspired one from AMPERS&ONE.

Grade: D