Nmixx Blue Valentine Album Dicussion

I love it and I think the b-sides are very strong.The variety for this album is killer, so many great sounds. I loved how they experimented with many genres and were able to add their own flavor. Maybe it's just me but I thought the song shape of love sound very similar to Jade's song Plastic box. That part is very cool because I love Jade's music and I thought shape of love was also very good

Hard to pick standouts because I enjoyed the project a lot, but I can see reality hurts gaining a lot of traction. I'm going to need more listens but on my first couple of listens I have it as a 9/10

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How are we feeling about Nmixx's first full album?

I think it's very good, definitely the best full album by a k-pop group I've heard in a while. It's hard for me to gauge though: The last full album I enjoyed this much was NCT 127's Walk, and that album's best cuts (Orange Seoul, Time Capsule, Rain Drop) are atmospheric and sophisticated in a way that is atypical of k-pop, whereas Nixx's whole thing is that they are stereotypically, maximally k-pop. And yet snippets of something more adult do shine through. I particularly like the subtly melancholy tones in parts of Blue Valentine and Shape of Love. I think these make good album bookends, which makes the inclusion of O.O at the end kind of puzzling. I wish they had saved this for a separate novelty mini (they could call it "uNmixxed"!).

I'm also not sold on Crush On You, which is very generic outside of its strangely unsettling and wrong-sound instrumental. Adore U is also kind of Day 6 coded in a way I don't appreciate - the guitar in the verses hint at something a bit 80s, something a bit 4ad, or Johnny Marr, or Edge, or the Mats, but then the chorus high melodrama in that very post Jae6 way. And while I'm complaining, I think the otherwise immaculate Shape of Love could have done with a Chorus B or at least a better changeup - I think they left some potential on the table, which is something I rarely feel for Nmix songs. I do love that song though, the chorus vocal melody brings to mind Kendrick Lamar's Love, which is a very nice thing to be reminded of.

Otherwise it's all positive: Podium sounds like a modernised Bangladesh production with an absolutely incredible vocal-heavy climax that has me ascending to heaven, the sliding vocal melody of Game Face is exploited to brain-ticklingly maximum potential, Rico's blend of various latin styles is genuinely insane, and the in-your-face cyberpunk hyperpop of Reality Hurts really does say eff you to yr mom.

I kind of wonder how they'll perform the chorus of the latter live though. There's a bit in Tool's song Third Eye where Maynard's scream digitally glitches and cuts in and out. iirc, when they played live, he would wave his hand in front of the microphone really fast lmao.

Overall it's probably not as overwhelmingly, uniformly great as Break or Forward, but for a full album, it's probably the best thing they could put out at this stage. I think they have better albums in them if they stay the course: Once they graduate to a more mature and emotional sound they'll be utterly unstoppable I think.

Anyway watchu think.

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I agree that O.O tracks felt out of place. I think should've saved it for special release. I don't mind it being included but it didn't feel like the end spot for the album.

It’s great

it's beautiful

highly respected

not many can do it like NMIXX

if one looks back at their entire discography one will realize they are GOAT!

I was a bit apprehensive listening to the previews, but each song exceeded my expectations. No skips, maybe reality hurts because it's a bit too intense...

cant decide on a fav between phoenix, podium, and ador u.

Only criticism would be that it does feel slightly disjointed, especially the transition from reality hurts to rico. A lot of different genres, but then again, that is mixpop, and each song sounds distinctly Nmixx.

I'll be listening on repeat.

worst release music-wise but it'll probably sell decently