Track Evaluation: RIIZE – Growth Growth Bass

RIIZE are a part of a vanguard of recent fifth-gen acts which can be making this 12 months’s Ok-pop fairly thrilling. Pre-release Unimaginable stays an authorized mega-banger, whereas Love 119 simply could also be 2024’s largest grower. To this point, they’ve managed to maintain the standard remarkably excessive regardless of traversing numerous genres. New title observe Growth Growth Bass marks the discharge of their first official mini album and takes us again to the groovy days of debut hit Get A Guitar. In truth, it’s composed by the exact same crew!

Although that is very Get A Guitar coded, it really jogs my memory of a unique SM artist comeback. The double whammy of Unimaginable and Growth Growth Bass looks like an ode to SHINee’s 2015 View/Married To The Music rollout. On this case, the songs are shorter and barely much less formidable — a product of our time, sadly — however I’m actually not going to complain a few group utilizing SHINee as their template.

Growth Growth Bass is simply too quick, for certain, nevertheless it packs a wallop inside its slight body. We’re jolted proper into the groove with a brisk verse as Wonbin’s vocals pull us into the observe. The refrain arrives remarkably fast, segueing naturally into the “increase increase bass” hook that’s been teased repeatedly main as much as this launch. The music snowballs from right here, rising extra rhythmically advanced because the manufacturing deepens and develops. By the point we attain the music’s conclusion, Growth Growth Bass is kicking up fairly a funk. For this reason we want a 4 minute model!

Nonetheless, I’ll take a music that steadily grows higher over one which shortly wears out its welcome. I’m already obsessing over Growth Growth Bass‘s MJ-esque dance break and segue into the ultimate refrain. Unimaginable pulled off an analogous trick, saving its largest sucker punch for its ultimate moments. This construction can really feel irritating at first, however tends to encourage repeat listens in the long term. Growth Growth Bass pulls this off much less efficiently than its superior predecessor, however RIIZE’s rising fortunes earn it the identical score to begin.

Grade: A-