Music Evaluation: Tempest – Lighthouse

In recent years, there’s been a virulent disease of member hiatuses and departures for causes that really feel relatively minor. Tempest’s Hwarang is recently sitting out workforce actions as penance for… visiting a dance membership. Glance, there’s so much I like about Okay-pop (clearly), however this foolish micromanagement of its artists wishes to prevent. It’s reached a degree the place netizens can wreck careers over arbitrary issues and the theory of forgiveness turns out totally alien. We will have to remember the fact that many of those performers are necessarily children. Other people make errors and so they (expectantly) develop from them. That’s a part of existence, and any “idol” must constitute existence.

With that out of the best way, I knew I’d revel in Tempest’s new unmarried as a result of they’ve established a seesawing development of liberating “banger, unhappiness, banger, unhappiness, and many others.” After ultimate 12 months’s difficult Vroom Vroom, we’ve now cycled again to “banger.” New unmarried Lighthouse is a rousing, vocal-focused punch of feel-good pop. Its adamant stomp and inspiring, anthemic melodies take me back to the fact of Golden Kid’s superb 2021 hit Burn It, which is prime reward in this weblog. Lighthouse‘s association isn’t slightly as magnificent, however I recognize its willingness to construct to a pleasing centerpiece and stay that surging power going throughout the verses.

Maximum of all, I like how the music employs full-throated making a song as its greatest attraction. There’s no shouted onomatopoeias to be discovered right here. As a substitute, the refrain crests with a dynamic melody that takes good thing about the instrumental’s constructive surge. It’s a fairly generic sound, however sticks out in a Okay-pop marketplace that’s in large part moved on from songs like this. And at 3 and a part mins, Lighthouse offers itself sufficient time to unfurl for max impact.

Grade: B+