On "You're Pitiful," the new single from the group's first album "Black Label," released on Tuesday, Fiestar prove that a song doesn't need to be all sunshine and rainbows to propel you to the dance floor.
Like a master chef, on "Hold Me," G-Flow combines seemingly random ingredients, a mellow Fender Rhodes chord progression, a gritty synth bass, a Dirty South drum loop, and turns them into something daringly divine.
On "Mastering," released on Thursday, the singer has once again done a full 180, Andamiro has returned with a new name (Anda) and a new sound, a sultry Wurlitzer-driven R&B that is nothing short of intoxicating.
"Sniper" could be Shinhwa's most sonically daring offering to date.
On Tuesday, the South Korean girl group GI (an acronym for "Global Icon"), seemed poised for a major comeback in the world of K-pop, with their third single "Echo" scheduled for release the following day.
Though "Crazy" may be a more well polished pop song, the nasty synthesizer sounds and unrelenting drum groove of 4Minute's "Tickle Tickle Tickle" push the song to even greater heights.
On the 2012 Girls' Generation-TTS track "Checkmate," songwriter and producer Hitchhiker jumps through musical idioms with ease.
On the Billy Carter song "Love and Hatred" the band members show their reluctance to take themselves too seriously, except where the music is concerned.
Recorded live in one take and filmed with a single unedited camera shot, Daeho and Banseok perform an a capella cover of JYP's "You're The One" that far surpasses the original in vocal greatness.
The sound conjured up by Rubber Soul on "Life," like the classic 1965 Beatles album the band is presumably named after, is breaking new ground.
Though it is far from a sound-alike, "Lookin Good," the new single released on Tuesday by Deepflow, revisits the groundbreaking sound of Craig Mack's "Flava In Your Ear" with exciting results.
Taken from the group's "Always" EP, the 11th in the U-KISS catalog, "Playground" is anchored around a silky smooth acoustic guitar part and powerful vocals.
The Solutions's latest single "Movements," released back in May, proves that the ecstasy of an anthemic chorus can cut across dance or rock music idioms..