I liked Kep1er’s nine-member swan music Capturing Star and was upset once they by no means carried out it at this 12 months’s KCON LA. Now the group is all the way down to seven, as Mashiro and Yeseo parted methods to affix 143 Leisure’s Madein. A brand new configuration opens potential for a brand new sound, and Tipi-Faucet actually switches issues up. Sadly, its musical selections wrestle to set the music other than many different present lady group efforts.

We get it, Ok-pop businesses. You may all make a NewJeans knockoff. Congratulations! However we’re about to leap into a brand new 12 months. It’s time to get some recent musical concepts as a result of this muted sound palette is draining all of the ambition from the trade. Tipi-Faucet is by far probably the most boring title monitor Kep1er have launched — basically one flat hook repeated advert nauseum. I wasn’t even a fan of Wa Da Da‘s brash power through the group’s debut period, however given the selection between that and this I’d fortunately return to the times of vroom vrooming like a supersonic. Take me to the moon, Kep1er. Simply take me away from no matter that is.

“Tipi-tap” makes a clumsy centerpiece as a lyric, however its weirdly infantile phrasing might be probably the most attention-grabbing factor occurring right here. The remainder of the monitor washes over like murky watercolors. The drum and bass manufacturing is past overused at this level and far of the ladies’ vocals are drowned in reverb. Nevertheless, Tipi-tap‘s largest concern is its full lack of melodic vary and dynamics. It’s only a straight, uninteresting line extending to nowhere. The place’s the group that gave us Capturing Star solely 5 months in the past?

Grade: D