Monsta X has been promoting their new full length third album titled Love Killa for the past couple of weeks. They even won an award on music core due to viewers votes. It seems like just yesterday that I was listening to All About Luv followed by their Fantasia mini album. These guys stay busy and their fandom: Monbebe seem pleased.
Track List:
01. Love Killa *
02. 갈증
03. Thriller
04. Guess Who
05. Nobody Else
06. BEASTMODE
07. 대동단결
08. Night View
09. Last Carnival
10. Sorry I’m Not Sorry
Love Killa the album respectively. That track exudes a bad boy attitude without the music video due to Monsta x's rappers, I.M. and Jooheon being in their natural environment. The beat drop at the start of the track gives a boast the the whole track and the percussion with the audio edits layered under it signal defiance. I noticed the vocal edits produced in the backing tracks that follows the main vocal track as support. Those producers mixed Love Kill really well as a lone track. Things open out to welcome in new genres as the album plays through the ten track album. There's a jerking force that pulls the album toward a more melodic rap category when Jooheon and I.M. have anything to say about Monsta X's musical direction. Stand Together was created as an all you can eat dinner for the rappers. As I listened, I could tell that many foreign and Korean people had a hand at creating this track. Some of the sounds are very slap damp in your face like nothing that has come from any other Kpop boy band in recent years. Then heading over to the more dance tracks that still showcase a whole lot more percussion that still allows listens to appreciate the other dynamics such as the Chinese flute in the ending seconds of Last Carnival or the operatic vocals used as an intro on one of the tracks. Violins also accompany the beat to create a commanding yet sentimental vibe. Sometimes the tracks are too bogged down by the hip hop influences. Other times time they need a bit more in the chorus to make it less boring. I did enjoy the smoothness in Night view which was a more tranquil track on Fatal Love. It's vocal performance on the mid tempo dance beat was a different side of the guys in an album full of testosterone. Sorry Not Sorry ends the album on a acoustic ballad turn after all your ears have to go through. I enjoyed my listen of Fatal Love overall.
Each album shows that Monsta X is coming more and more together as a group. The vocals seem more inline with the rapping unlike their earlier works where the vocals seem to feel more tacked on to the rapping. Jooheon always impresses me as a rapper. His drive to express himself artistically comes out in his own music as well as Monsta X's releases.
Fatal Love didn't have anything "cater to the masses" cutesy songs included this time around. I liked that very much. I knew that they became one of my favorite Kpop male groups from this new generation for a reason.
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