Classical Musician Reacts: AKMU '개화 (FLOWERING)' Album!
ReacttotheK
0:00 To my fellow Acme music fans, hello.
0:04 It has been too long.
0:06 I don't even know what to say going
0:07 into this other than I've missed Acme incredibly.
0:11 I am aware that Chen Huk had been releasing a lot
0:14 of solo stuff since they last released Hero, right, as a duo.
0:18 Um, but while I did check out his stuff,
0:20 his stuff hasn't been necessarily my cup of tea.
0:22 But I am curious if like will Acne have a sound shift change since
0:29 they aren't under YG anymore and so
0:31 they aren't working with the same producers, right?
0:34 And they aren't working with the same ANRS like um ANR's job usually is
0:40 to help the artists choose like which
0:43 producers or songwriters they want to work with.
0:45 Sometimes they help brainstorm the genre they want to go for.
0:48 If I remember correctly, under YG, they would write music a lot with one
0:53 of their keyboardists or something like that.
0:55 And so now, um, if we're starting with Spring Colors,
0:59 this one and Einh, the name doesn't immediately come to mind.
1:05 So I'm like, will this be a change in style?
1:08 We're skipping Paradise of Rumors because my initial reaction
1:11 was caught with ENL and Cla's reaction to the song.
1:15 So that's there.
1:16 To summarize my thoughts on Paradise of Rumors,
1:19 it seems a little bit more country leaning or folk leaning.
1:23 I'm not very familiar with Korean folk music,
1:26 so I don't know how much of it
1:27 is like western folk influence versus Korean folk influence,
1:32 but that was a song that they sort of relied a lot on a singular loop,
1:37 and it never really seemed to shift and grow.
1:41 While I did enjoy the instrumentation throughout,
1:43 I kind of wish that it had harmonies added
1:46 to it because it was solo suan the entire time.
1:49 Um, vocal harmonies added to it or even
1:51 more instrumentation added throughout like they did in Hero.
1:53 That's why I like Hero so much.
1:55 Um, but we'll see what Spring Colors is up to.
1:59 I really hope to see them live in Korea.
2:01 I'm visiting Korea this summer.
2:02 Ah, okay.
2:03 Three, two, one.
2:04 Spring colors.
2:09 Okay.
2:11 Very beautiful guitar sound.
2:17 Okay, we've got the twangy.
2:20 To me, that's like the western twangy guitar sound,
2:25 which I'm not the biggest fan of personally.
2:27 But already we're getting more chords than Paradise of Rumors.
2:31 I need to look at the lyrics.
2:36 Cute little lick.
2:41 They had a little lowered.
2:45 So, so far it's like a verse verse.
2:52 New chords.
2:55 Yeah, we got some champion.
3:06 And now the guitar is an octave up.
3:10 I think they might have added in.
3:14 What did they add in?
3:23 I love the acoustic guitar sound.
3:24 I like how it's developing so far.
3:26 I really can't stand guitar.
3:34 And now, okay, I think we added a second acoustic guitar because now we're
3:37 hearing a guitar on our right and a left and they're playing different things.
3:41 I really love this verse.
3:44 Gentle harmony added in the vocals.
3:54 And now they add an electric guitar which fills up.
3:57 Okay, so we have three different guitars happening at once plus the bass.
4:12 doesn't resolve until until the start of the next phrase.
4:36 Did they add in another bass?
4:41 The instrumentation shifted a tiny bit.
4:43 It grew a little bit more.
4:44 Or maybe they just boosted the bass.
4:57 Da da da da.
4:59 Love da da again.
5:14 Wow.
5:15 I love the acoustic guitar sound.
5:17 It isn't.
5:17 I don't know how to explain it, but one of the songs,
5:21 if you didn't know already, that I am obsessed with.
5:24 The guitar sound of Time and Fallen Leaves
5:27 is so different from the guitar sound here.
5:30 And I don't know enough about guitar to know exactly
5:34 if is it the difference between steel string and nylon
5:36 string or like just the resonance of the guitar or is
5:39 it all about the way that they recorded the guitar?
5:42 But I love how the acoustic guitar sounds in both.
5:45 Even though they're completely different here, it's very dry.
5:48 I feel like you can hear the fingertip on the string.
5:52 Um the the various picking,
5:53 but just like the the creativity of the little licks that they had.
5:56 It wasn't just always strum strum strum, right?
6:02 They had a variation of the strum strum strum and the little clicky.
6:08 So that was definitely my favorite element of the song,
6:11 my favorite sound of the song.
6:12 I feel like this is a very smooth
6:13 transition from Paradise of Rumors because we have the
6:20 If you love it, I wish I was you.
6:22 I think it's stylistically there to tie it to Paradise
6:25 of Rumors and because it feels like more folksy,
6:29 more country, more nature, more outside, more adventure.
6:32 And now one of my favorite things with Acme Lyrics, they are the main artists.
6:36 them and eja are the reason why I want
6:38 to learn Korean other than how it would be
6:41 helpful with the job that I want to do
6:42 the rest of my life if these lyrics are correct.
6:45 Pastel tone crayons.
6:46 I wasn't necessarily getting pastel tone crayons.
6:49 I was just getting fl like wheat field flowers.
6:52 Uh but spring inside a friend sketchbook is the color pink.
6:55 Like they're always so visually poetic
6:58 with their oh specifically balsam flowers.
7:02 Oo.
7:03 Oh, gorgeous, stunning, dainty.
7:08 Tucking flowers into my friend's hair.
7:09 The sound of birds whistling all around the neighborhood.
7:12 When spring, spring, spring, and everything is born a new 10 out of 10 lyrics.
7:16 Let's move on to paid with bugs.
7:19 Adorable.
7:20 Love that title.
7:21 Okay, Ginghub again and Chenhook.
7:23 Three, two, one.
7:26 This sound of a car.
7:43 Do we have some harmonica in here?
7:46 So they are going for the country vibe.
7:56 Something about that melody is an interesting harmonic shift.
8:03 I like when Chenha comes in.
8:05 So do vocal harmonies.
8:12 No.
8:12 Okay.
8:15 Oh, I need to go back to double check the harmonies,
8:20 but it sounded like they were going to modulate
8:22 and I think we went back down, but I'm confused enough to not know for sure.
8:34 It's like they're hanging out on a dominant or something.
8:39 So, we have an unresolved feeling.
8:44 Yeah.
8:46 Even though we have the twangy guitar,
8:51 it's dancing around more, so it bugs me less.
8:58 And it's a lower register, which is nice.
9:15 That's so cute.
9:23 That's adorable.
9:28 It's so playful.
9:30 The fact that the syllable she used like imitated the the guitar and
9:38 the fast trade back and forth between siblings.
9:41 I like I like this section.
9:49 But this is tonic, right?
9:51 Which is why that's weird.
9:56 Yeah, we are in the same key as before.
9:58 So was it even?
10:00 a dominant that we were good chords in this one.
10:11 Chords that are satisfying, but that confuse me.
10:15 That sounds like a accordion or the smaller version of it.
10:20 Vandonian.
10:21 Vandal.
10:32 tempo change.
10:35 A little I have a feeling if I look up the lyrics,
10:50 I'm going to be crying at this part.
10:55 Stunning little symbol roll.
11:00 Oh, favorite song on the album so far.
11:03 Okay.
11:03 What this song had that I love in Acme sound?
11:07 Vocal harmonies.
11:08 They could have done more, but they were there.
11:10 Fast trading back and forth between brother and sister.
11:14 Suhan going da da.
11:16 I can't really fully embody her, but it happened towards the end.
11:20 But like no one can do it like her.
11:22 like she can.
11:23 Great instrumentation.
11:24 I thought they used the twangy.
11:26 It might even be a different guitar and I
11:28 just might be stereotyping the twangy guitar sound into one.
11:32 Oh, and oh oh tempo the the retardondo like um what
11:36 they did in every little thing like it feels like a musical
11:38 journey because there was like a tempo change and in this case
11:43 they just took everything out and it was like full robboto.
11:46 So it just felt very expressive.
11:51 paid with two bugs and got on the bus.
11:54 It was a very wonderful dinner.
11:55 Even if I spend all the money I hardearned here, it won't be a waste.
11:59 Where shall we go tomorrow?
12:00 My heart I just like uh the like slice of life vibes that their lyrics give.
12:05 My heart was full of anticipation.
12:07 Shall I take a nap today?
12:08 It's like a diary entry or like what you text someone
12:11 because I will have to walk for a long time again.
12:15 They paid with 12 bucks.
12:16 Are we talking about inflation?
12:18 Got on the train.
12:19 Oh.
12:20 Oh.
12:20 Bus versus train that hesitates and lingers.
12:22 Time is short and there is so much to enjoy.
12:26 I knew I would cry.
12:27 I agree.
12:28 I mean, I could just show this song to people
12:30 with perfect pitch who can analyze the chords much faster.
12:33 So, I think I'm going to do that instead of you seeing me struggle through it.
12:37 Dude, it's been six years, seven years since I took music theory.
12:45 Your girl remembers nothing.
12:47 I'm so sorry.
12:47 But paid with bugs.
12:50 Fantastic timing at the end.
12:53 Love.
13:00 This is halftime that I'm clapping.
13:04 Yeah.
13:04 No, it's definitely a tempo change.
13:09 Any song with da?
13:16 That's a hard interval to sing.
13:18 Da da da da da.
13:22 Is that it?
13:26 Let's move on to the what I believe is the title track.
13:30 Three, two, one.
13:32 It's Joy, sorrow, beautiful heart.
13:40 Microphone sounds very far away from the piano.
13:54 And her vocals have a lot of reverb on them.
13:59 So the
14:03 Yes.
14:03 live stream.
14:09 And now the harmony is moving faster, I think.
14:13 Is it?
14:27 There are so many reasons to love.
14:44 Oh my god, it was almost the pocket bell sequence.
14:46 It was almost the Well, retardando.
14:56 New chords.
14:56 New chords.
14:57 New chords.
15:18 I like this chord progression a lot.
15:20 It has makes you think it's like the lamenting pocket ball chords,
15:26 but then it brightens up.
15:30 And they let acoustic instruments breathe.
15:41 Let's pan back and forth with the pits.
15:43 So the instrumentation arrangement develops.
16:05 I think it was contrary motion in the vocal arrangement.
16:12 You expect to go here which is same chord progression
16:15 as winter album title track that cut so bright so beautiful.
16:26 I know she guitar in unison makes it more dramatic.
17:04 Did we change keys somewhere?
17:07 We have another time.
17:21 Is that supposed to be a reference to Naka?
17:27 Yeah, we're changing keys.
17:29 Something's happening with the keys.
17:35 That's not the end.
17:38 About 4 minutes long.
17:51 Someone practicing drills.
17:55 Is this the end of Earth?
17:57 Is this what?
17:59 Ah.
18:19 Were there hints that the world was ending the entire
18:21 time or did it come as like a last minute?
18:24 I guess you maybe you could see the hints throughout like
18:26 the messy room like not caring if the world's going to end,
18:28 not caring what things look like,
18:30 just enjoying the area around you, the nature before.
18:36 Okay, the first thing that I want to go back and check
18:39 is if they snuck in a key change somewhere when I
18:43 wasn't paying attention or if it's just towards the end they have
18:46 a couple chords that step outside the key center after humming along.
18:50 I believe this song is in D flat
18:53 major except there's a couple moments with mixture
18:57 like there when it comes to the instrumental
19:06 breaks which I always extremely appreciated this one
19:10 was a bit hit hit so it was very heavy and they're like smiling there definitely
19:17 could be a meaning behind this but I
19:19 sort of prefer heard the strings doing the cello.
19:23 A lower line might have been doing that.
19:28 Nope.
19:31 They're just there was like a But I wish
19:36 there was more movement in this even though Yeah.
19:39 Yeah.
19:39 Yeah.
19:39 I think they could have still had like a little retardo and then start again.
19:46 Yeah.
19:46 Hanging on the leading tone going to here.
19:50 Stone.
19:52 I like the string piticado arrangement when it moves to the string plucks.
20:03 We might have added a shaker or a tambourine here.
20:09 And the unison there is very dramatic.
20:14 We're still in D flat major.
20:23 That's up a half step.
20:25 Oh, it actually tonicizes in B flat.
20:28 Just a lot of chords that aren't tonic cuz this is dominant one.
20:41 A very quiet reserved.
20:43 Jesus Christ, that's so insane that like they're like,
20:46 "Let's end on the most soft sounding arriving at home note
20:51 and have the world blow up at the same exact time." Dynamics.
20:55 Dynamics done well.
20:56 Okay, sunshine.
20:57 Bless you.
20:59 This is Einhan again.
21:05 Ah, it's be I don't know how to describe what kind of guitar sound that is.
21:16 How many guitars were used in the making of this album?
21:19 Yes.
21:35 Have I heard this somewhere before?
21:44 It's very quirky intervals they're choosing.
22:03 Uh, I'm not sure what the term is, but it's just like they're taking the rhythm.
22:08 Oh, different this time, but it was like twice as slow.
22:13 I've heard this before.
22:17 Was this released on a previous EP?
22:23 Bless you.
22:25 Miss Bless you.
22:33 Oh, the reason why I heard it is because they
22:35 performed it live and I watched the Suhan fan cam.
22:43 Whoopsies.
22:47 Okay.
22:48 I really like that upward chromatic.
22:52 for the first 10 seconds.
22:55 Then it kept happening.
22:57 Oh, and I was back.
23:04 It's like an alarm going off.
23:14 The little castinet is cute.
23:17 You got some cowbell.
23:20 Lots of symbol.
23:23 I think I'm enjoying the percussion arrangement the most so far of this song.
23:34 Right.
23:34 They had a flutess on this.
23:40 I want to see the warm so bad.
23:46 Cute.
23:47 Adorable.
23:50 Hand drums.
23:59 I wish the cowbell was less so we could hear more of just
24:10 we're hearing a lot of tone of the actual note of the ham drums.
24:14 But I want to hear more of the the slap.
24:20 Little improv time.
24:24 Bringing back in the melody.
24:37 And we're back to the symbol.
24:38 So it fills out the frequencies.
24:52 A cute little ending.
24:55 Adorable.
24:55 Sorry, guys.
24:56 I did cheat and I've just the second
24:58 something acne related pops up on my timeline.
25:01 I've been watching it.
25:04 So, I heard that already.
25:05 But let's talk about not you again.
25:11 Why that melody is so quirky is tonic.
25:18 B major how how do you create that sound on guitar?
25:28 Is it just like a certain plug-in patch thing?
25:30 I don't know.
25:33 What did I say?
25:34 I said this was in B.
25:37 So why that guitar line itself is so weird
25:39 is because it's climbing up one flat 2 two.
25:42 It's just like has nowhere to go.
25:46 It's like you start on a journey and then you run into a brick wall.
25:50 Oh, but then D.
25:55 It goes up to four.
25:56 1 2 3 4.
25:58 And four is still a predominant.
26:00 So it still kind of has nowhere to go.
26:03 It's kind of cool because it's sometimes like da and it's
26:06 sometimes da da da da and sometimes da da da.
26:09 So it it has variation.
26:13 So five sharp four which is the ah it's the trionee how she floats up there.
26:22 Quirky fun.
26:23 I'm definitely dancing.
26:24 I'm definitely grooving during this live.
26:26 Love that they gave some time for improv
26:28 and the instrumentation that they featured was nice.
26:31 Just the duh got on my nerves.
26:33 And I feel like when it came to the vocals,
26:35 they sort of kept to a similar range,
26:39 less vocal harmony throughout, but I don't dislike paid with bug.
26:45 Still number one tent.
26:46 3 2 1 It sounds like they recorded this in a 10.
27:14 No autotune.
27:17 He's a little flat.
27:20 Which is totally fine.
27:21 It's not a criticism.
27:22 It creates the vibe.
27:28 I kind of wish the guitar was also so like had the room sound.
27:40 Piano and the guitar sounds like they had a direct
27:43 line feed into the bill like how they recorded it.
27:52 One of the pianos might be recorded in the room,
27:55 but it like was doubled with something that seemed more electronic maybe.
28:05 This is a very nursery rhyme.
28:08 Oh, hey Tug.
28:12 Little bridge section.
28:23 Or maybe they just have really close-up mics
28:25 to the piano so you don't really get that room sound.
28:37 Don't got Oh, and you can hear the tent.
29:19 I love that so much cuz I guess it's they give more indie vibes.
29:26 just the amount of taking it outside of the clean
29:30 and precise K-pop world, which I love, too.
29:33 But it's partially what differentiates them.
29:36 But this this feels like home.
29:38 Singing about a tent and like the fact that shoes
29:40 are this are so big and drunken nap snoring.
29:46 Um, I guess just talking about being in nature and relationships in nature,
29:52 friendships, just doing very, is it a word?
29:55 menial tasks gets me out of the mindset of work
30:01 and stress and all that stuff makes you want to go camping.
30:05 But I think they did summarize the feeling of being in a tent very well,
30:08 besides actually physically recording in a tent.
30:11 That's so funny.
30:13 All right.
30:14 Young and Married.
30:15 Okay, this entire EP seems to be written by Chinhap and Chenhook.
30:19 Three, two, one.
30:38 Change the song.
30:39 Oh no, it went back down.
30:47 Oh, we've got jazz organ in there.
31:12 I need to look up the lyrics for this.
31:28 Not one of my favorite chord progressions.
31:34 the it's sort of it's like a the chord
31:37 progression in this song is a path that curves,
31:40 but you can always see when it's going
31:42 to curve little that jazz organ is so quiet.
32:23 Oh, oh, I just want to get into Oo, that was some crunchy harmony there.
32:42 Why was that a jump scare?
32:46 Cuz I guess I thought they were like
32:49 simplifying the instrumentation to just voice and guitar.
32:59 Okay.
33:14 Cute.
33:16 I definitely feel like in this one the lyrics add a lot of character to the song
33:20 itself because we've got a simpler side
33:23 of instrumentation just the and like some snare
33:27 and kick and the guitar and the jazz
33:30 organ and the twangy twangy western guitar and I
33:34 guess this is the tenny hook solo track
33:36 while paradise of rumors was a suan solo track.
33:39 Not a youngest sibling but a daughter.
33:42 Oh, is he talking about the first line when we think, is he talking about Suian?
33:49 Huh?
33:53 A couple that resembles macaroni penguins.
33:56 It's very sweet.
33:57 Um, slower tempo.
34:00 I love the imagery of just this adult singing about, "Oh,
34:08 look at those cute little love birds." But it's
34:11 so cute how much you love each other.
34:12 Some some something like that.
34:14 Adorable.
34:16 Okay.
34:16 The right person.
34:21 Huh.
34:30 Bluesy.
34:32 Are we going to have resolve?
34:36 We're not going to resolve.
34:47 I just really like their playful stuff.
34:55 I'm wondering if the voices will ever come in,
35:01 but I was also okay if it doesn't.
35:04 That is a crunchy chord.
35:08 I don't know what key they're in.
35:11 I don't even know if in the vocal melody is in the same key.
35:15 Okay.
35:16 Yeah, it is.
35:18 But there are clashes.
35:22 Which means our perfect pitch people will have a field day again.
35:43 Does that mean this is tonic?
35:51 The most melodic moment.
35:52 That makes sense.
35:54 And now we're back to not making sense.
36:02 Okay.
36:06 Just adding a ton of more instrumentation, a lot more life to the song.
36:13 Got to make sure my audio is still working.
36:15 It is great.
36:18 And now since we have more instruments playing and the bass,
36:21 the bass came in, we have better idea where
36:23 we are harmonically and how the vocal melody fits in.
36:30 I think we have some.
36:33 It keeps rolling with the choir.
36:45 Woo!
36:45 This is a party.
36:49 Change in arrangement.
36:50 We got some subdivisions.
36:59 I like the syncopation with da d what sub
37:12 class what sub genre of jazz is this honky tonk
37:17 lovely ac capella moment here kind of Don't you see that?
37:42 We got claps on the upies.
38:01 Okay.
38:02 A little a little tag.
38:06 If it was live performance.
38:09 What?
38:10 No.
38:11 Why?
38:11 Why?
38:12 Why did it end just as the piano started to improvise?
38:17 That was illegal.
38:21 That is going to trigger the jazz musician.
38:30 See da da da da da da da da da da.
38:34 It sounds like it's beginning a solo.
38:38 It's beginning a solo and then it just ends.
38:43 I can't help but wonder if they just went on for a very
38:46 long time and then they made a decision when to cut afterwards.
38:51 Maybe there's somewhere out there there's an even longer version.
38:55 Does it go smoothly into graceful breakfast?
39:20 I feel like da da da da da da da da da da da.
39:26 But then this is down here.
39:31 That was the beginning.
39:32 It's like it was like a mistake.
39:34 It was like it was cut off early, man.
39:36 Maybe there's some sort of Oh, wait.
39:39 Oh, wait.
39:39 Does it loop perfectly?
39:51 I'm not as mad as I was before.
39:56 The right person.
39:57 We've got a contender for number one on the album along with Paid with Bugs.
40:03 I had so much fun with that song.
40:05 Like this is a song I believe that reused chords,
40:09 but they were so hard to latch on to at the beginning.
40:13 I'm big question marks over my head and then they finally added the bass.
40:17 So then when we added the bass,
40:18 then I could do that analysis and then
40:20 they just like had fun over the same amount.
40:22 So it might be a criticism from our crew.
40:26 Sometimes like when I'm trying to decide which songs to show them,
40:28 I'm thinking ahead of like, okay,
40:30 what do these reactors like or dislike in music?
40:32 Like I could see maybe Ben and Catherine being like, "Yeah,
40:34 it was really cool." But then they never went anywhere else.
40:37 But maybe the the chords are colorful and interesting enough for them to not
40:41 care and they're just like so happy with what they did with them.
40:46 What's lyrics right and wrong person?
40:50 RM acne RM I would flip my shit if
40:55 Acne and RM the best acoustic K-pop artists out there.
41:01 Um, where's the right person?
41:02 Where's the wrong person?
41:03 Stop the fighting while we live.
41:04 Let's give each other a smile.
41:07 I mean, okay.
41:11 Yeah, confusing chords.
41:12 We got the shaker.
41:13 We started adding in hand drums.
41:15 So, like this has the instrumental development that I really, really love.
41:21 Just adding in rhythm rhythm section.
41:22 So, everything's so rhythmic.
41:24 And then right then eventually so cute the little pauses.
41:34 I didn't even notice the hand drums the first time through I don't think.
41:39 And then we've got the piano, the bass uh second guitar.
41:46 And they're like trading off with their little riffs.
42:00 which might be the thing they ended on.
42:04 And the piano is just a lot of syncupation.
42:08 That's what also makes this so dancy.
42:12 This might be actually number one.
42:19 Five minutes later.
42:22 No, wait.
42:24 It's just such a tempo change and vibe change even though like
42:28 or in instrumentation seems to be the same going into graceful breakfast,
42:31 but we just went from such a good party
42:33 time to what sounds like post dinner drunken like tired.
42:39 We'll we'll we'll see.
42:40 I can't judge by the first two seconds of you one.
42:44 It's just okay.
42:45 Okay.
42:45 A little got a little brighter.
42:46 But this is like like um in Winnie the Pooh Eore.
42:54 This is giving Eeyore while the other one was giving Piglet.
43:02 Okay, now it's a little bit more nice hits little Scooby-Doo.
43:15 Show tuning.
43:18 Yeah.
43:18 Show tuning.
43:25 Okay.
43:25 Brass.
43:26 We got trump and trombone.
43:36 Where are we going to go?
43:37 Make up your mind.
43:46 Stupid.
43:51 Yeah.
44:07 They open up saxophone.
44:23 Ooh, nice little run.
44:26 Okay, lower register.
44:44 This is how you do an instrument solo.
44:49 I am so proud to say AC is like my favorite artist with day six.
44:54 They give the instruments time to shine except
44:58 in the right person at the very end.
45:04 Okay.
45:04 A new section.
45:04 I believe we got a different feel.
45:14 What I was going to say is vowels are opening on da da.
45:21 They could have done like, you know, but they kept it open sound.
45:39 little retard.
45:44 She really dug into that.
45:48 That is going to be a grower.
45:49 I can already say it.
45:50 It felt like uh a bit of a slap to the face
45:52 going from the energy of the right person down to graceful breakfast.
45:56 Kind of felt like I fell down the stairs,
45:59 but listening to this song on its own, I know it will grow on me.
46:03 Um yeah, let's go live.
46:11 I think the instrumentation is trumpet, trombone, sachs.
46:19 Sometimes in horn sections there's two trombones and two trumpets.
46:27 Yeah.
46:27 Going from like the quarter note feel to halftime feel.
46:34 the little shakes.
46:38 That's what I think.
46:39 I think they use a plunger
46:42 and then like also lots of vibrto and we still have hand percussion.
47:04 I like how it starts off slower rhythmically and then gets
47:06 a little bit more and more subdivisions are added in like faster notes.
47:15 Sometimes playing the blues note, sometimes not.
47:23 I'm not sure how I feel about the way they recorded the sax though.
47:33 And then again, like I'm used to being
47:35 in the same room and hearing the clacking of the keys,
47:37 you know, and like the breath going through.
47:40 This is a very round like maybe they added reverb to it or something.
47:47 Like it could have been a little bit more dirty.
47:50 But then again, even this part part like the trumpet is like
47:57 it's like so piercing on their notes
47:59 that it's a little bit more poppy leaning than
48:06 and those rhythmic moments always come
48:09 as a surprise where they like take out everything.
48:15 Why not the second time around?
48:18 Yeah, not mad, not in love.
48:22 Probably grow on me.
48:24 Now we move on to Festival of Refugees,
48:28 which is different from Paradise of Rumors.
48:30 Ooh, this is only Eenhuk.
48:33 3 2 1 Festival of Refugees.
48:55 Very close to the mic.
49:08 Super close to the mic.
49:23 Two, three, four.
49:29 Raw raw sounding.
49:36 Is it like it was a BTS song where they autotuned the whistle?
49:40 I mad at the producer for autotuning a whistle.
49:42 Are you serious?
49:54 I like that melodic part.
50:04 Okay, change of guitar arrangement.
50:09 We do have two guitars.
50:12 H the refugees are coming.
50:22 Okay.
50:22 Tanny hug vibrto.
50:44 He couldn't get the note out.
50:50 It had so much character.
50:54 The not a great whistler, but that's completely fine.
50:59 That's so fine.
51:12 Wow.
51:13 We need to play this for Trump.
51:16 Hip hoper we high.
51:41 H I think I prefer the sound of Festival
51:46 of Refugees uh over his last solo song on this album,
51:49 but I'm trying to figure out why.
52:03 Or you can feel theum.
52:05 And also I think the sound of this guitar
52:08 is reminding me of my dad's acoustic guitar.
52:11 He's a casual guitarist.
52:15 But some of my favorite childhood memories is uh
52:18 getting ready for bed and he's just like out
52:19 in the living room trying to teach himself a song
52:22 on the guitar and the steel strings sound similar.
52:29 I also like how whispery his delivery is.
52:34 I think I maybe it's breathy on purpose.
52:36 Maybe it isn't that he's a bad whistler.
52:38 Maybe it's like purposely cuz I'm like like when my whistle
52:44 is more sharp and it has more tone to it,
52:46 it doesn't quite fit the vibe as much instead of Yeah.
52:57 Like my whistle is too perfect for this, which is a bad thing.
53:01 I'm not complimenting myself.
53:05 Love yourself.
53:07 I learned to whistle because I was sucking
53:09 my thumb as an 8-year-old and the therapist was like,
53:11 "Find her something else to do with her mouth."
53:14 And so then I learned to whistle.
53:21 Yeah.
53:22 I like how speech-like his delivery is and how quiet it is.
53:25 Lovely message.
53:31 Like if if I'm interpreting it correctly,
53:35 just like These people are wandering and need to find place of home.
53:38 If you've never wandered like and you aren't wandering,
53:43 who are you to turn them away?
53:45 Lovely.
53:46 Let's go, Saints.
53:58 Second Su Hian solo.
54:18 Oh yeah, nice contrast from the lower register stuff earlier.
54:45 I think Chan Hook might be in there and knocked it down.
54:52 Oh, a little boozy.
54:58 It's just it's hard to go from
55:03 that is code like they recorded through a megaphone or something.
55:32 really full voice.
55:43 That's always such a surprise.
55:45 Never expect that baser solo.
56:06 new material, right?
56:07 Maybe a lot of the songs have Oh, I thought that was going to be a tag ending.
56:21 I don't know, but I'm going there will be a tag again.
56:48 Yeah, that makes sense.
56:50 I'm okay.
56:51 For two seconds, I was shocked that we ended unresolved.
56:57 I think we ended on a syncopated beat.
56:58 Hold up.
56:59 Let's count together.
57:02 Oh, god damn it.
57:09 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 It was sudden.
57:17 Can I fully explain why?
57:18 My guess is that it was the and beat leading up to one.
57:21 Um, okay.
57:22 This song, it was emotional whiplash going from Festival of Refugees to Stains.
57:27 So, I kind of wish Festival of Refugees was earlier in the album.
57:33 Maybe around Sunshine Bless You and Tent.
57:35 Maybe they didn't want to like more raw sounding
57:38 recordings back to back with Tent and Festival of Refugees,
57:42 but it would have been more of a smooth vibe going from Oh,
57:46 and like Graceful Breakfast up there.
57:47 Like if we went from the right person to stain,
57:49 this one feels like a celebration live.
57:52 I'm going to be boopping around dancing without a care.
57:56 It's so energetic.
57:57 It's celebratory.
57:58 That's the word I was looking for.
58:01 And the right person was great leading up to that.
58:05 Um maybe the right the right person might have been more
58:08 energetic than stains because it might have been a faster tempo.
58:11 I do think it's a good ending song.
58:14 Tucked away in the corner.
58:15 I said I'd wash it someday.
58:18 Oh, the stain.
58:26 Why is it that Suan or Chanuk doubling him?
58:35 It might have been him.
58:37 It's called my self-made potato soup.
58:42 And I think the chords changed here.
58:43 I'm not sure.
58:44 They might be different from the first time.
58:48 I really really like this precourse.
58:55 Is it that like and I think that's different from the first time.
59:09 It is different.
59:14 musician approved if it was the same exact thing.
59:20 That would make it more pop leaning.
59:25 We have that take over little instrumental.
59:27 Okay.
59:28 Guitar solo, I think.
59:39 That is 10.
59:52 This is going to be fantastic live.
59:54 I've held on you for too long.
59:56 Goodbye audio is my love.
59:58 But then I will always keep it in me.
1:00:01 Maybe.
1:00:02 Oh.
1:00:02 Oh.
1:00:03 Oh.
1:00:03 Oh.
1:00:03 Are they talking about another person?
1:00:05 They're like, "Goodbye my memories with you." Wait, no.
1:00:12 Goodbye you, but I'll keep the memories together.
1:00:15 Like keeping like throwing away that stained shirt,
1:00:19 but keeping the memory of the day that you wore it, right?
1:00:25 Did I get there?
1:00:26 Um, lovely album.
1:00:27 I think Stains is my third favorite.
1:00:29 And I hope you look forward to a crew reaction.
1:00:31 So far, I think the one most likely
1:00:32 to be reacted to is the right person because I
1:00:35 have no freaking idea what's happening in there
1:00:37 and the reactors love a puzzle that takes time to solve.
1:00:41 Yeah, I'll show a couple of the other songs to them, too.
1:00:44 And I hope you look forward to that.
1:00:46 Thank you so much for listening along, watching with me.
1:00:49 Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
1:00:52 Do you like this album?
1:00:52 Do you not like this album?
1:00:53 What's your favorite song?
1:00:54 What's your not what's not your favorite song?
1:00:57 And I'll see you in a future video.
1:00:59 You don't see me as much anymore because I have an internship,
1:01:03 which I talk about a little bit in our podcasts.
1:01:06 Uh, so the free time that I would spend reacting
1:01:10 with Shawn or Henry is now spent behind the scenes
1:01:14 as an international ANR at a like a management
1:01:18 small management company that works with various songwriters and producers.
1:01:21 It's been so fun and that's what I want to do.
1:01:25 the the dream job.
1:01:26 I I believe um working at some sort
1:01:28 of management for songwriters and producers or a publishing company,
1:01:32 music label, that kind of thing.
1:01:34 But for the time being, I'm happy Acme is back.
1:01:37 Um like all my favorite artists came except EA.
1:01:40 EA better come back in 2026.
1:01:42 Bye-bye.