Transforming sweet memories into heavenly remakes

One day or night in 2019, three veteran artists got it together, thanks to the singer Hyoungjoong Kim, for the third time to create a robust album: this time, a cluster of five tracks. The tracks could be classified under five titles: Stardust Memory, Urusa, Sweet and Sweat, The Greatest Romance, and Hibernation.

As could be seen as text, the titles are self-developing for this gathering of the artists; they are on revival under the name of EOS, an age-old Korean techno boy band.

 

The opening track, Stardust Memory, could work wonders, create banquets for every time someone listens to the track. The electronic base sounds seemingly like a male human voice and in that voice, its melody soars up to the next track, Urusa.

 

Sounding like a departing flight at the airport, Urusa's lyrics feel suspiciously, and somewhat academically here, like ancient Korean poems. They match up to Hyoungjoong Kim's voice and the electronical elements woven by the up-to-date electronic instruments.

 

The third track, Sweet and Sweat, is quite sensual in its way of lyrics, Musical tides, divided into both the vocal part and the instruments' part, rise in repeated waves of melody. 

 

 The Greatest Romance, especially in the beginning, seems dreamily like SSAW's tunes. (SSAW, its name meaning Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, is a renowned Korean fusion jazz, folk and rock band. Its hale past is colorful and listenable)

 

Representing the final track, Hibernation, would probably be Hyoungjoong Kim's fair voice. Here Hyoungjoong totally sounds like a teen, somewhat reminding of a boy just woken from sleep and thinking about it, while sweet instruments accompany him. For me this is one of his best as a singer.