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TXT just released one of the best K-pop albums in years

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If you don’t already know, TXT released The Star Chapter: TOGETHER yesterday as their 4th full album, and my jaw is actually on the floor.

I started being a fan of them right before they released The Chaos Chapter: Freeze (also one of the best k-pop albums ever in my opinion), which set the bar pretty high for me in terms of album quality. The song variety is amazing (e.g. No Rules, 0X1=LOVESONG, and Frost), and yet they were able to keep up the same consistent message/vibe throughout each song on the album, make it sound cohesive and also diverse, and all the songs are well-produced and enjoyable to listen to.

I’ve been loving the music that they’ve released since then too, but I haven’t really experienced the same blown-away feeling that I felt with Freeze, and I was starting to think it was just one of those feelings you get with your first comeback with a group.

Until yesterday when I felt it again with The Star Chapter: TOGETHER. I will say, the current trend in the music industry seems to be making songs that are closer to 2:00-2:30 instead of 2:30-3:00 long, which applies to this album as well and may put some people off, but in my opinion the song quality is so good here that you can almost forgive the track lengths.

Like Freeze, the songs are very diverse in genre (Upside Down Kiss, Sunday Driver, Song of the Stars for example), and although there are some songs in this album that I wouldn’t necessary consider “my taste” in music, I still somehow find myself enjoying them a lot and wanting to listen to them often.

They have also done a really good job with making this album sound cohesive: although it may feel like the messages jump around a lot, listening to Beautiful Strangers near the beginning and finishing with Song of the Stars makes you feel like you’ve just been on a journey you don’t even remember starting, and I will say I have cried more than once listening to the album top to bottom.

Obviously everyone has different tastes and opinions, and you may listen to this album and only enjoy 1 or 2 songs from it, but personally I just wanted to shine a light on how good this album is as an album together and not just a collection of songs. I highly recommend anyone who’s interested to give this album a listen from start to finish.

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