NME Album Review: The Chaos Chapter: Freeze

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  • 5 stars from NME? Welcome to critical acclaim club. Very good review and the 5 stars are earned.


    "Prior to the release of ‘The Chaos Chapter: Freeze’, TXT’s back catalogue was a skip-free zone. This new record not only keeps up that 100 per cent strike rate of golden tunes, but also gives us their best release to date. It’s an album that represents huge growth. Their vocals are more powerful and emotive than ever, whether Taehyun is delivering a desperate, grungy growl on ‘0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You)’ or Yeonjun is spitting out playful, cool raps.


    Creatively, too, they’ve had more of a hand in the making of this record. Each member contributed to the writing of the songs, while Hueningkai makes his production debut on the stomping ‘Dear Sputnik’. Like true Gen Z artists, they pull from an extensive palette of genres, but manage to make each – be it angsty rock or a return to disco-pop – feel like it’s a sound they’ve been honing for ages. No wonder they’ve been crowned both the leaders and ‘it boys’ of K-pop’s fourth generation, two titles they’ve more than earned with their commitment to candid storytelling and forward-thinking originality. Life might be bleak at the moment, but at least we have TXT to turn our many lemons into a wealth of lemonade."


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