Album title: Remember
Artist: SES (Sea, Eugene, Shoo)
Genre: R&B, New Jack Swing, Jazz, Dance
Nationality: Korean
Release date: January 2
Position in Discography: Sixth
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No
Check out more from this artist? Sure
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Sure
So it looks like we're staying in Korea, and I have more Googling to do. Shut up; I told you already. Seems this band have broken up but came back together for this album, which marks their twentieth anniversary. Got to say, that's pretty impressive. Can certainly hear a more, shall we say, mature sound to the music – very big band, jazzy, swing, almost like something from the forties. Again, it sounds like there's a mixture of Korean with a few lines of English. And again, lyricwise, probably better that most of it is not in English: I definitely heard
Let's make a memory/ And jingle all the way. Um, yeah. Pleasant enough though. Good singer(s). Another good thing about these albums seems to be that they don't outstay their welcome. Whereas our man Chief had like 17 tracks on his offering, this has ten, and no song is over much more than four minutes. Short, snappy, easily digested and not a slog to get through. These girls know where it's at.
“Paradise” is pure disco funk, and “Hush” is a sweet little ballad. This isn't on Spotify, annoyingly, so I had to search for it on the Y, and the only full version fails to time the tracks, which again is annoying and means I have to guess. But it's pretty decent so far anyway. Yer wan has a real sexy voice, that's for sure.
“Life” reminds me of The Carpenters in places, while “The Light” is another and perhaps better ballad than “Hush”. Oh, and an English version of the title track to close. Nice.
